The Impact of Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Program on Teachers' Professional Development in Pakistan

The study was conducted, in the year 2012, to evaluate the impact of Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Program on Teachers' Professional Development in Pakistan. First Phase of CPD was launched by the Directorate of Staff Development (DSD) Lahore in 2007 for 12 districts of Punjab, Pakistan. The objectives of the study were to evaluate, respondents' opinions on teachers' professional development as a result of CPD; the impact of CPD on the districts; and its impact on urban and rural localities. The population of the study was comprised 3158 Govt. boy's primary schools of the districts, Faisalabad, Okara, Sargodha, and Sheikhupura. The sample was taken with the help of multistage cluster random sampling technique. Firstly 344 schools were selected randomly and secondly 2752 respondents were selected randomly in the form of clusters from those schools. Three different questionnaires were used for the collection of data from three different types of respondents. Data were analyzed by using Chi-Square statistic. Findings of the study revealed that more than ninety percent respondents were agreed or strongly agreed in the 'improvement in the teachers' performance as a result of CPD, the district Sheikhupura was at the highest position while district Faisalabad was at the lowest, and urban locality was on a higher position than rural locality regarding the impact of CPD.