Effect of Teacher Motivation and Effective Classroom Participation on Students’ Critical Thinking Skills

Abstract

Motivation is necessary in all the fields of life specifically teachers’ motivation is important to make teaching learning process a success. This study investigated the effect of teachers' motivation and Effective Classroom Participation on Students Critical Thinking at Secondary School Level. The researcher used quantitative survey research design to conduct this study. Simple random sampling was used to select the schools at first stage and 25 five students were randomly selected from these schools of district Sialkot and district Narowal. Urban and rural both localities are both represented in the sample. The questionnaire was used to collect the data of this study reliability and validity of the questionnaire was ensured. The collected data was analyzed by using SPSS version 25.0 the descriptive statistics was used to calculate frequency, percentage, mean score, and standard deviation tests. The results of the study show that, there is a strong effect of teacher on students critical thinking skills at secondary school in District Narowal and Sialkot. Those teachers who have high motivation the students also have high critical thinking. The study recommends that, school environment and teachers motivation needs to be improved to develop better critical thinking skills among students.