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Nasir Mahmood

I am Assistant Professor in Department of Research and Assessment at Institute of Education and Research (IER) , University of the Punjab. I am involved in teaching to Master’s classess in research and assessment meant to produce professional in test development, managing large scale testing, analysing large scale data, and report writing. I am also involved in teaching on Continuing Professional Development courses and Doctoral programme in educational psychology. I graduated from university in mathematics and physics before doing my masters in science education from University of the Punjab. I completed my doctorate from Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan as MONBUKAGAKUSHO scholar in the area of Educational Psychology. Before working at the University of the Punjab, I taught physics and mathematics in high and higher secondary schools in the Pakistan.

Interests

My research focuses on teaching and learning science in constructivist framework, with particular emphasis on nature of students involvement, empowerment of students to practically take charge of their learing, studying adjustments needed to shift teachers role from traditional to facilitator, impact of teacher’s beliefs about science and learing on the student learing, assessment of student learing refelctive of their competencies, dynamics of classroom interaction through development of classroom interaction analysis framework, development of scales for measuring development psychological traits in students of various age. I am particularly keen to supervise research in these areas, and also supervise research on a wide variety of topics related to science education, learning, classroom dynamics and testing.

I am also on the panel of supervisors approved by
Higher Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan for awardees of their scholarship.



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Conference on Language and Technology, 22-24 Jan. 2009 
for details see
http://www.crulp.org/clt09/download/CallforPapers.pdf

Institute of Quality and Technology Management University of the Punjab in collaboration with HEC and University of Management and Technology Lahore organizes an international conference on assessing quality in higher education on December 1-2, 2008 (details available at www.icaqhe.org).

 



 




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