Job Performance Questionnaire
Job Performance Questionnaire
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doi: 10.17051/ilkonline.2020.03.735404
Abstract- Questionnaire as the data collection tool is mostly used in social science research. The main purpose of tool
is to obtain relevant data from the respondents for analysis. The study was conducted to assess the content validity,
construct validity and reliability of the adapted job performance Questionnaire developed (Atta, 2012) and (Nigar,
2017). Content validity was assessed through expert opinion by using CVR formula construct validity was checked
through exploratory factor analysis while reliability was evaluated by Cronbach alpha. The sample of the study
consisted of 171 Instructors Physical education (IPEs) through simple random sampling technique, and data were
analyzed through SPSS version 26. The study found that Job performance questionnaire has shown content validity,
concurrent validity, and internal consistency among IPEs working in Government Higher Secondary Schools of
Khyberpakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Therefore, the study recommended for the use of this adapted questionnaire for
measuring job performance among IPEs for future researchers.
Keywords: Job Performance, Instructors Physical education (IPEs), Higher Secondary Schools
I. INTRODUCTION:
The term performance refers to the act of performing an activity by the individual in a specific time or
completing or achieving something and more specifically performing of duty to achieve the specific target
(Fogaça, Rego, Melo, Armond, & Coelho Jr, 2018). Job performance is an individual’s behavior towards
work and a function of what an individual knows or able to do a task and what the individual believes. Such
believes are related to the individual’s knowledge, skills, and attitude. It is difficult for an individual to
perform a task without Knowledge, skills, and attitude. The performance of an individual depends upon
how much he or she has the knowledge, competency, and attitude toward work (Ramawickrama, Opatha,
& PushpaKumari, 2017). An individual’s job performance is a degree to which the responsibilities are
completed in a certain environment. Two significant criteria for estimating performance are the amount
of work and the nature of work (Opatha, 2015).
According to Li and Mahadevan (2017) and Nigar (2017) the interaction between knowledge, skills, attitude,
and environment influences the teaching-learning process. Knowledge, skills, and attitude are associated
with the cognitive part of an individual whereas the environment is a physical aspect and internal aspect
in which an individual works. So, both internal and external aspects of an individual influence job
performance.
Indicators of job performance
Job performance refers to the action of an individual to execute a particular task in order to attain the
objectives (R.W Griffin, 2012). Employees working in any organization perform specific tasks or duties in
the working environment to achieve the predetermined organizational objectives. The teacher plays a
dynamic role in the teaching-learning process in a school. S/he performs duties in a school
environment to deliver his/her responsibilities effectively to accomplish the school objectives. The
following are the indicators of teachers' job performance which are described in the National Professional
Standard for Teachers (NPST) in Pakistan in 2011 (Q. Kalsoom & Qureshi, 2019).
Subject matter knowledge
Teacher Subject Matter Knowledge is one of the essential and important competencies, teachers
cognitive skills and performance determined their competency to involve students in the teaching-
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learning process by different intellectual activities. Subject Matter knowledge is knowledge and
understanding level that the teacher has about the particular subject that he or she teaches in the class
(Kiamba, Mutua, & Mulwa, 2017). The evidence in empirical studies depicts that students bring
expectations in the classroom which are influenced by the teachers’ subject matter knowledge. Student's
understanding level is high when taught by those teachers who are more experienced and qualified in subject
matter knowledge than less experienced. Teachers who have command over subject knowledge are
distinguished from other teachers. There is a high demand for teachers in Pakistan who have command
over the subject knowledge. Command over subject matter knowledge requires a great deal of particular
content, facts and ideas, build association among different discipline or content and understand the new
approaches and trends introduced in the subject (Nawaz, Atta, & Khattak, 2016).
All these three elements include the content of subject, organization, and structure of content, and the
inquiry method used within the subject could be interpreted as the central elements of subject matter
knowledge. So, one who is aware of all the three components of subject matter knowledge and use in his
teaching-learning process has a significant impact on the students’ understanding level (Nigar, 2017).
Instructional planning and management
Instructional management is an activity to design teaching and learning programs, portray teaching and
learning processes, and evaluate learning outcomes and managing the classroom activities (Danarwati &
SE, 2013). Instructional management is the way toward enabling learning resources to accomplish
academic goals. Effective instructional management is the application of the management abilities on
learning components, particularly, teachers, students, learning outcomes, materials, teaching methods, and
assessment (Rahayu, 2015).
Atta (2012) elaborates that planning is the core element in effective teaching. A teacher should plan well
before going to teach in the class. Basically, planning is an intellectual activity and is part of the decision-
making process.
There is a need to create and refine pre-instructional skills to execute effective instructional management.
The desired objective will be achieved if effective planning is executed. Once the teacher planned a lesson, he
or she must implement it. Implementation of a successful lesson maximizes the understanding level and
achieves required class-room learning outcomes. The difficult tasks can be easily done if teachers plan it
before execution (Freiberg, 2013; Nigar, 2017).
Saifi et al. (2018) elaborated that academic planning needs a description of teaching-learning methods
that teachers will employ while teaching a lesson. More specifically, the prime element of the teaching-
learning process is teaching strategies that the teacher uses in the class. For this purpose, the lesson plan
plays an important role which is designed in a way that assesses the success of the teaching strategy.
Assessment
Assessment is considered as one of the most important parts of the teaching-learning process. Literature
shows that assessment has a significant effect on the teaching of a teacher and the learning of the students.
It is a substantial part of learning which indicates the understanding level of the students in the class.
Assessment is essential to teaching-learning activities in school. It can be characterized as all efforts of
teachers and students to acquire information that can be used to change teaching and learning. This
incorporates teacher observation and assessment of student work (schoolwork, tests, articles, reports,
practical and classroom conversation) (Amua-Sekyi, 2016). It may also be kept in mind that assessment is
a continuous procedure as it is carried out persistently in different types; it helps the teacher to know about
student abilities (Abosalem, 2016).
Communication
Communication is the process of conveying one’s ideas and thoughts to other people. There are two kinds
of communication verbal and nonverbal, both of the types are essential to convey one’s thoughts to
others. The relationship between teachers and students mostly depends upon communication whether it
is verbal or nonverbal. The importance of communication is like blood in the human body. Successful
correspondence assumes a significant job in character building and improving the standard of understudy's
learning. Aptitudes and communication methods of the teacher improve the capacity of the students in the
field of education. Teacher’s Love, friendliness, honesty, commitment, obligation, and devotion may bring
success and love which is necessary for students learning (Asrar, Tariq, & Rashid, 2018).
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The communication contains a crucial role in the organization because the extensiveness, structure,
organizational climate, and scope of the organization are determined by active communication. In other
words, communication is called the essence of the organization (Canary & McPhee, 2010).
Objectives
1. To examine the content validity of the Job Performance Questionnaire for Instructors Physical
Education
2. To examine the construct validity of the Job Performance Questionnaire for Instructors Physical
Education
3. To assess the reliability of the Job Performance Questionnaire for Instructors Physical Educatio
II. METHODOLOGY
Participants
The population of the study consists of the entire 296 IPEs (187 male and 109 female) in higher secondary
schools of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The sample size of the study based on Yamane 1967 formula of
determining sample. According to this formula sample size is approximately 171. Simple random
sampling technique was applied to provide equal chance to each member of the population to be selected
as sample. 171 questionnaires were distributed, 168 were successfully returned and used for data
analysis.
Students’ assessment 7
Communication 7
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questionnaire, the researcher administered the questionnaire to experts in the field of sports sciences and
physical education and social sciences for content validity. The draft of the questionnaire for content
validity comprised of 3-Point Likert questionnaire (1. Not relevant 2. Item needs minor revision 3. Very
relevant). The experts were requested to rate on the three options. For measuring the score of content
validity, the researcher used the Content Validity Ratio (CVR). The cutoff criteria for accepted questions
ranging from 0.3 to 1.0 (Lindell & Brandt, 1999). The following formula was used for content validity;-
N
CVR = E- 2
N
2
E refers to all the experts who rated the item relevant and N refers to experts contributed in the
validation process.
CVR Remarks
I Score
Subject Matter Knowledge
1 Elaborate each and every step of the lesson to clarify the 1 Valid
message.
1 Valid
2 Repeat and explain the difficult portions of the lesson.
.67 Valid
5 Link topics with other discipline.
1 Valid
6 Stay on subject while teaching.
.50 Valid
7 Manage all sports activities in schools and district level.
1 Valid
8 Properly plan lesson before teaching.
Instructional planning and strategies
1 Valid
9 Take feedback before starting a new topic
1 Valid
11 Complete the course within time.
1 Valid
13 Follow the method from easy to difficult during teaching.
.67 Valid
14 Judge the ability of students and teach accordingly.
1.0 Valid
15 Answer the questions up to the satisfaction of students.
asse
ents
ssm
ent
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1 Valid
18 Check the previous knowledge of the students.
1 Valid
19 Identify and attempt to solve the difficulties of students.
1 Valid
20 Ask questions at the end of class.
1 Valid
21 Observe the activities of students in the school.
1 Valid
23 Conduct Practical Examination.
1 Valid
24 Use verbal communication while teaching.
Communication
1 Valid
25 Use easy language while teaching.
.83 Valid
26 Apply written communication in teaching learning process.
1 Valid
27 Listen to every student patiently and then reply.
1 Valid
28 Comprehend facial expressions and body language.
1 Valid
29 Explore the talented students.
.83 Valid
30 Train talented students.
Valid
Organizing sports and physical activities
Prepare students for various events like Inter Board Sports 1 Valid
32
Tournaments.
1 Valid
33 Carry out scouts activities in school.
1 Valid
34 Control discipline in the school
1 Valid
35 Control all physical activities in the school
1 Valid
36 Regularly conduct sports competition
1 Valid
37 Try to bring out the potentialities of the students on surface
Try to make them realize that sports and physical activities .67 Valid
39
are important for healthy life
The above table shows the content validity ration score of the job performance questionnaire. Cutoff
criteria for accepted questions ranging from 0.3 to 1.0. The score of all the items was above 0.3 therefore
all the items were considered accepted/valid.
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Fig1
Table3:
CMIN 3367.454 -- --
DF 692.000 -- --
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Your model is fit. Based on the standardized residual covariances,
*Note: Hu and Bentler (1999, "Cutoff Criteria for Fit Indexes in Covariance Structure Analysis:
Conventional Criteria Versus New Alternatives") recommend combinations of measures. Personally, I
prefer a combination of CFI>0.95 and SRMR<0.08. To further solidify evidence, add the RMSEA<0.06.
Reliability of instruments
The goal of good research is to have measures or observations that are reliable. Several factors can result
in unreliable data including when questions on the questionnaire are ambiguous or participants feel nervous
to fill the questionnaire. Reliability is generally easy to understand as it is a measure of consistency. If the
score is not reliable they are not valid (Creswell, 2012). There are four different techniques to check the
reliability of the instrument but Cronbach’s alpha is used most commonly in social research studies.
Criterion validity is considered when the item-total correlation exceeds 0.3. In other words, the value of item-
total correlation is greater than 0.3 then criterion validity for each item is considered satisfactory. The
reliability of the instrument is presented in the following table.
Table 5: Reliability score of the questionnaire
Table 5 shows the Chronbach alpha coefficient of all the three questionnaires of the Job Performance
questionnaire yielded an internal consistency coefficient as .949 ranged above 0.9 Chronbach alpha
coefficient and in excellent internal consistency coefficient.
Table 6:Alpha reliability coefficient of the individual items of the job performance questionnaire
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32.
6. .948 .501 19. .949 .447 .949 .425
33.
7. .948 .484 20. .948 .618 .949 .443
21. 34.
8. .947 .640 .947 .684 .948 .482
22. 35.
9. .949 .463 .948 .519 .949 .465
23. 36.
10. .948 .589 .947 .720 .948 .611
24. 37.
11. .948 .492 .947 .682 .948 .617
25. 38.
12. .948 .569 .947 .647 .948 .496
26. 39.
13. .947 .659 .947 .648 .947 .730
Table 6 shows the Chronbach alpha coefficient of the job performance questionnaire yielded an
internal consistency coefficient of the questionnaire item wise and as a whole of 39 items is 0.949 ranged
above 0.9 Chronbach alpha coefficient and in excellent internal consistency coefficient. The Corrected item-
total Correlation of each measure is above 0.3; which means that the criterion validity of the questionnaire
is satisfactory.
Df 741
Sig. .000
Table 7 indicates KMO and Bartlett’s test for independent variable (job performance). The table depicts
that the value of KMO is .835 which is greater than .60. Thus, KMO result indicates that the data set is
appropriate for factor analysis. In the above table, Bartlett’s test shows the chi-square value (6128.576)
and P-value of .000 which indicates that the correlation between the variables is significantly different
from one another and this case is appropriate for factor analysis.
Table 8: Component matrix for job performance
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JP8 .600 JP22 .742 JP36 .647
The table 8 reveals the factor loading of each item of job performance by using varimax technique. The table
indicates that each item or statement is greater than the cutoff value .40 because the minimum acceptable
criteria for factor loading are mentioned earlier which is .40. Most of the items (JP1-JP2, JP7, JP12, JP20, JP22,
JP27, JP29-JP34) are good factor loading. The extracted factors explained 74.72% variability of the dependent
variable (Job Performance).
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