Abstract
The study focused on evaluating preference of parents sending their children to public or private
schools in District Karak. Objective of the study was to find out parental preference for the areas
of academic standard, quality of staff, physical facilities, curriculum, cost-effectiveness, and
quality of output. All the parents whose children were studying in private or public schools in
District Karak were included in the population. There are three tehsils in District Karak. A total of
900 parents (300 from each tehsil) were included in the sample. Data was collected through a selfdeveloped questionnaire. Content validity of the questionnaire was obtained through experts’
judgement and reliability through Cronbach Alpha formula which was 0.75. The data was obtained
in three categories, Public School, Private School, Don’t know and was analyzed through
statistical technique of Chi-square. Findings of the study were: parents of public schools’ children
favored public schools whereas parents of private schools’ children favored private schools for
areas of academic performance, quality of staff, commitment of staff, standard of curriculum, and
confidence level of students; parents of both public and private schools’ children favored public
schools for teachers qualification, and physical facilities; parents of both public and private
schools’ children favored private schools for the area of expensiveness of education.
Recommendations of the study were: the government may prepare fee and admission policy, and
availability of physical facilities in private schools; the government may provide financial
assistance to private schools for monthly salaries to teachers; modalities may be prepared to make
teachers of public schools more punctual and regular.
Shafqat Ullah, Iffat Ara Hussain. (2020) To Evaluate Preference of Parents Sending their Children to Public or Private Schools in District Karak, Bulletin of Education & Research, Volume 42, Issue 1.
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