District Institutes of Education and Training - Teacher Education

District Institutes of Education and Training: A Comparative Study in Three Indian States
4. Which changes have not been useful in your classroom teaching? Give 2-3
examples.
The question following these was concerned to understand the practicability of
change messages.
5. Which changes do you accept but feel you cannot implement in the classroom?
Why?
Figure 7.1: Discussing questionnaire design
The sixth question elicited teachers’ views of what changes they would like, and
the final question was intended to draw forth teachers’ understandings and views
of the DIET:
6. Which changes would you like to see in primary education?
7. What are your expectations from the DIET in the field of primary education?
The questionnaire was piloted with Master Trainers in the next training
programme. DIET staff were quite disappointed by the answers they received, and
felt that while the questionnaire did not need adjustment, they themselves had to
work harder in introducing the project and reasons for it in future. They promptly
rectified this first mistake in the second round, with teachers.
After the questionnaire had been completed by teachers, DIET staff initially
undertook analysis by generating their own analytical framework according to
their own perceptions of the responses they felt teachers ought to have made. They
tabulated responses numerically and derived percentages which were rough
indicators as to how teachers had performed in relation to their expectations.
However, much of the useful information for proactive responses by the DIET lay
in the detail of what teachers were saying. The research team suggested that an
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