Effect of one year Face to Face B. Ed. Programme on Professional Commitment

The study investigated the effect of one year face to face B.Ed. programme on the professional commitment of the teacher interns in relation to type of institutions, academic streams and university system. The sample constituted of 1257 teacher interns belonging to science and humanities streams drawn from fifteen education Colleges from two universities i.e. Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar and Panjab University Chandigarh were selected from government-aided and self-financed. The effect of execution of B.Ed. programme on the professional commitment of the teacher interns was studied with the help of a pre-test, post-test experimental design with 2×2×2 factorial design taking gain scores of professional commitment as dependent variable. The results revealed that teacher interns of government aided institution exhibited significantly higher gain in professional commitment than their counterparts in self-financed institutions. Whereas teacher interns following different academic streams were studying from different universities did not differ gain significantly in their professional commitment.

The interaction effects between institution types and academic streams, between academic streams and university system and between university system and institution types on the gain scores of professional commitment were reported significant.