Measurement and Evaluation

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    Compatibility of Interest and Personality Profile of Urban Health Extension Workers with Current Practices in Addis Ketema, Yeka and Gulele Sub cities, Addis Abeba
    (Addis Ababa University, 2014-09) Kassahun Negash; Daniel Tefera
    The main focus of the study was to explore the relationship between job performance and initial interest as well as personality of Urban Health Extension Workers in Gulele, Yeka and Addis Ketema sub cities. To arrive at the intended target a descriptive in its nature and a health facility based cross-sectional design was employed and using quantitative approaches. The study participants were women urban health extension workers whose employment period greater than six months. In this study some appropriate statistical tools like percentage, means, standard deviation, correlation and multiple regression method was used. Accordingly results indicated that social, enterprising interest and extrovert personality had correlation with awareness creation; introvert, conventional and investigative occupational interest had positively correlated with documentation. Social occupational interest and extrovert personalities found to be the predictor of the overall achievement of Urban Health Extension workers. However, the community culture of Ethiopia need to be considered as the extrovert people may be taken talkative and unstable which affect the acceptability of the community. Thus, the supervisor advice before deployment of this people and follow up is highly required. Human resources managers and related professionals can use these finding to selecting and appointing Urban Health Extension Workers to achieve the desire goal
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    The Impact of School Feeding Programme on Students Academic Performance: The Case of Selected Elementary Schools in Debre Libanos Wereda, Oromia Region
    (Addis Ababa University, 2015-06) Ermias Assefa; Daniel Tefera
    The purpose of this study is to investigate if the school feeding program has significant impact on students’ school performance specifically on students’ achievement Test score and students’ class attendance rates among primary school children in Debre Libanos Woreda. A mixed method research design specifically sequential explanatory approaches was employed and a combination of qualitative and quantitative data collected. The data sources for the research were both primary and secondary. The primary data were collected from school administration of 423 students (195 from treatment and 228 from Controlled groups) using structured questionnaire. Content analyses, Key Informant Interviews and Observation were the methods employed to collect both primary and secondary data. The analysis employed both descriptive and inferential statistics. The independent sample t-test statistics revealed that there was a statistically significant difference between the treatment and control group on attendance rate (t= p < 0.01) but the two groups of students were not different in their achievement test score (t=p>0.10) using independent sample t-test. Thus, the possible explanation is that SFP is a fundamental instrument to increase academic performance specifically on students’ school attendance rate
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    Monitoring and Evaluation of Projects in Government Organizations: - Expectations and Practices: The Case of the Ministry of Mining and Geological Survey of Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2007-07) Ermias H/Mariam; Daniel Tefera
    The research project set out to identify the gap between expectations and practices of Monitoring and Evaluation system in Ministry of Mines (MoM) and Geological Survey of Ethiopia (GSE). (MoM and GSE are established to improve development of the mineral resources in order to enhance the contribution of the Foreign Currency earnings of the sector in the national economic growth of the country.) Data for the study is collected using the questionnaire and detail interview. The result of the study shows that the projects implemented by these two organizations was not effectively monitored and evaluated; the study also showed that the organizations have many challenges to implement the system of M&E. The four groups of the research participant’s namely management, M&E experts and project team leaders have very good expectations from the M&E system. However, other experts group have poor expectations. The gap between expectations and practices was very high. Recommendations are given. Some other points are discussed in the thesis..