Semester System Practices in Public Sector Universities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Abstract

The study explored undergraduate student’s perceptions of the semester system practices in Public sector Universities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The study was descriptive and a survey method was used to collect data. For this purpose data was collected through a structured questionnaire, covering five aspects of the semester system i.e. curriculum, syllabus coverage, class regularity, teacher and teaching methods, and evaluation process, and one openended question about the drawbacks of the system. The questionnaire was validated and its reliability was found 0.87 through Cronbach alpha. The students identified non-regularity in the classes, teacher’s favoritism in marking, lack of preparation of lecture, incomplete course, over the workload of students for assignments and presentation as drawbacks of the semester system.