The dera ismail khan early childhood education divide: a comparative analysis of public and private sectors schools.

Abstract

This study aims to compare early childhood education between public and private sectors schools of district Dera Ismail Khan On the basis of curriculum, teaching methodology, and assessment technique.  objectives of the study were to compare the curriculum, teaching methodology and assessment techniques of ECE curriculum between public and private sectors of district Dera Ismail Khan. Three research questions and three hypotheses were developed study was delimited to female schools of district Dera Ismail khan questionnaire was used as a research tool on five Likert scale. For this research study multistage sampling technique has been considered suitable which is followed by stratified sampling and then simple random sampling techniques were used to collect the data from teachers. Questionnaire was distributed among 30 respondents for pilot testing, reliability is checked through Cron Bach’s alpha. Questionnaire was validated by the experts of relevant field. Questionnaire was collected by researcher herself. Independent sample t-test was used for comparison.  Data was analyzed, arrange through latest version of SPSS. After applying test of significance p.value is less than level of significance 0.05 alternate hypotheses was accepted significance difference was found in opinion of teachers regarding provision of early childhood education in terms of curriculum, teaching methodology, evaluation between public and private sectors primary schools districts Dera Ismail Khan.