A Comparative Analysis of Quality of Intermediate Education and its Impact on Academic Achievement of Students

Abstract

The study is comparative, quantitative and descriptive in nature. It aims to analyze and compare the quality of education at intermediate level between public sector higher secondary schools and colleges. It also works on to see its impact on academic achievements of the students of Intermediate in districts of south region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The population of the study included all inter-level students and teachers of Government Institutes. A sample of 80 teachers and 480 students was selected by stratified multi-stage sampling_ technique from all inter-level public sector Schools and colleges of four southern districts of KP. Both the questioners were made valid and then were made reliable by using Cronbach Alpha at the 0.05 level of significance. The data was analyzed through descriptive (mean, median & standard deviation and inferential statistics i.e. an independent t-test. The study
concluded that Government colleges showed better results than Government higher secondary schools. Infrastructure, staff competence and physical facilities i.e. Laboratories, libraries, computer labs, wide and green environment of colleges were comparatively found better than that of schools.