PERCEPTION ON SEMESTER SYSTEM BY COLLEGE TEACHERS OF MIZORAM

The present study was conducted on 221 undergraduate college teachers selected randomly from the undergraduate colleges affiliated to the Mizoram University to find out their perception towards semester system with respect to their teaching experience. Self constructed perception scale revealing the overall perception on semester system and their perception towards five components of semester system - general observation, course of study, evaluation, method of teaching and choice based credit system was administered. The perception scale consists 57 items especially for college teachers. The data collected were analyzed through using mean, sd, percentage as well as t test. The study revealed that most of college teachers had neutral perception on the semester system, yet there were more teachers who had satisfying perception than those who had unsatisfactory perception. The study also revealed that short experienced teachers had a more favourable perception on semester system than the long experienced teachers.