ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Educ.
Sec. Teacher Education
Volume 10 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1431208
This article is part of the Research TopicNavigating Trends and Challenges in Educational ProfessionalismView all 14 articles
Relationship of Research Attitude and Knowledge with Academic Achievement of Prospective Teachers in Pakistan
Provisionally accepted
- 1University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
- 2Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Background. In a data-driven society, educators are expected to excel in the field of research so that they may examine problems that they are facing and find their solutions. The current study aims to examine the relationship of prospective teachers' research attitude and knowledge with their academic achievement in research courses. This quantitative exploration is based on a self-report survey for which a correlational research design was used. Method. Multi-stage sampling technique was employed to select a sample of 540 prospective teachers from two public and two private universities of Lahore district. Two instruments (Attitude towards Research and Research Knowledge Scale) were used to measure their level of research attitude and knowledge. The academic achievement was measured through the Grade Point Average (GPA) of prospective teachers in the research course.Results. The findings revealed that prospective teachers had a positive attitude towards research and a high level of research knowledge. Prospective teachers' research attitude and knowledge had a significant positive relationship with their academic achievement in the research course. There was no significant difference between the attitude of public and private universities' prospective teachers. However, their levels of research knowledge were significantly different.
Keywords: Attitude1, research2, prospective teachers3, research knowledge4, academic achievement5 The aim of current study is self-report survey for which
Received: 11 May 2024; Accepted: 04 Jul 2025.
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* Correspondence: Noreen Rafiq, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
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