Elementary School Teacher’s Perception on Role Performance of the Diet’s in Karnataka

Universalisation of elementary education is one of the important objectives of post-independent India. Many Efforts are made under SSA and RMSA programmes through the District Institute of Education and Training (DIET) to ensure the quality, but we are unable to improve the quality as well as the quantity of elementary education. DIETS play a Vitol role in Universalisation of Elementary Education by giving the academic support through training programmes, resource material development, monitoring and supervision and Research and Evaluation at the root level. The present study was undertaken to investigate the factors affecting the perception of the Elementary level teachers' about Role Performance of the DIETs programmes. The researcher had selected 307Male and 301 Female Elementary Teachers from five districts of Karnataka with a total of 608 Teachers. A questionnaire was used in the study for the Role Performance with four divisions A, B, C and D (RPQ) which contains 65 questions. The tool was developed by Rajanna SP and Dr. Haseen Taj (2015).In order to understand the nature of the score distribution of the data collected, the Percentages and Chi-square tests were worked out to find out the Role Performance Perception of Teachers in various districts. It is further revealed that The Teachers of Bangalore North are having higher Perception of Role Performance of the DIET and also the result indicates that there is a significant association between the Role Performance level Perception of various districts, Age, Teaching Experience as well as Qualification of Elementary teachers.