International Journal of Social Science Research (IJSSR)

Professional Competency of Graduate Teachers: A Comparative Study

Teaching can be considered the mother of all profession. Professional competency is the important factor in determining their effectiveness and success in this field. Recognising the importance of teachers’ professional competency, investigator tries to assess the professional competency of graduate teachers, because graduate teacher is the pillar of secondary education. For assessing the professional competency descriptive survey method is used and the studied carried out on 114 graduate teachers among these 49 are TET qualified appointed teachers and 65 is Non-TET teachers in Nagaon district (Nagaon urban) educational block using dis-proportionate simple random sampling technique. A self-constructed tool is used to measure the professional competency of graduate teachers. Validity of the tool assessed by the expert in field and reliability of the scale measure by using test-retest method, reliability of the scale is found 0.84. Findings of the study demonstrated that majority of the teachers approximate 50% showing the very high and high level of professional competency. The study found no significant different between TET and Non-TET qualified graduate teachers in the term of professional competency. Key words: Professional competency, Graduate teacher, TET, Non-TET.