Abstract
The current research work was conducted to compare the male and female subject matter knowledge of secondary school teachers selected through Conventional, National testing Service and online process regarding competency based teacher education. The main objective of the present research was to judge the gender based subject matter competency of secondary school teachers selected through different modes in the light of competency based teachers’ education. This research study was descriptive in nature. Systematic random sampling technique was used. A self-developed subject matter competency scale on five points Likert scale was used in this study. The expert team comprising different subject specialists as a respondent, who made observation and rating the questionnaire to the respective secondary school teachers. Data was collected through these subject specialists, from respective secondary school teachers while they were teaching. The descriptive statistic and t-distribution was used for data analysis by using SPSS-17. Finding indicates that mean score of the male secondary school teachers (conventional, online and NTS) was better than female. The standard deviation and coefficient of variation of male SSTs was less than female, so the subject matter competency of male secondary school teachers was consistent than female secondary school teachers. The result of t-statistic shows that there is no overall considerable difference in subject matter knowledge between the male and female secondary school teachers regarding competency based teachers’ education.