Browsing by Author "Dawit Amogne"

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    Ideals vs Praxis: Examining the Tensions between Journalistic Role Conceptions and Performance in the Ethiopian Public Media Landscape
    (Addis Ababa University, 2025-05-01) Dawit Amogne; Abdisa Zerai
    Journalism has long been practiced throughout the Ethiopian media history. However, journalists' roles, as reflected in their outputs, have remained contentious. This study has attempted to examine the journalistic role conception and practice among the Ethiopian public media journalists. Using the theoretical lenses from the JRP Framework and Gatekeeping Theory, the study collected data from participants (N = 90) who worked for the public media organizations based in Addis Ababa. The survey questionnaire – for conception and perceived enactment - was administered through Google Forms, hard copy, and Word document versions of the questionnaire. It also gathered data from news stories (N = 82) whose contents were analyzed for evidence of enacted journalism practices. The results have shown that the role conception-performance gap was found to be statistically significant for watchdog, civic, and service roles. The watchdog role received a higher degree of importance, but it was observed that watchdog was almost absent. Conversely, the loyal-facilitator role was the most dominant role of the public media house, where journalists‟ main duty is to promote the government agenda and patriotic reporting in agreement with the state‟s priorities and national interests. The study also observed a dearth of journalistic autonomy, especially when it comes to making decisions on the final outputs of the newsroom productions. The findings highlight the meddling factors – political and institutional – played key roles in journalistic role performance. The study concludes with recommendations for future research and policy reform.
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    An Investigation of the Correlation among Efficacy Sources, Students’ Self-Efficacy and Performance in Reading and Writing Skills: Bahir Dar University in Focus
    (Addis Ababa University, 2008-06) Dawit Amogne ; Nuru Mohammed
    The aim of this study was to find out the correlation among sources of self-efficacy, selfefficacy and performance in reading and writing skills of Bahir Dar University students (N=106). In addition, the degree to which the reading and writing efficacy beliefs and performance differ as a function of gender was examined. To this end, two instruments (questionnaires and tests) and three statistical tools (correlation, t-test and regression) were employed. The data analysis revealed that there exists significantly strong positive relationship between writing efficacy and writing performance. Likewise, the reading efficacy and the corresponding performance of students showed significant positive correlation. With regard to gender, males reported stronger writing and reading efficacy than females. Males also outperformed significantly in both reading and writing tests. The multiple linear regression analyses for the full sample indicate that efficacy sources collectively predicted the self efficacy beliefs of students in writing and reading. It was, however, only mastery experience, while other sources were controlled, which could significantly predict writing and reading self-efficacy. Others, with the exception of social persuasion for writing efficacy, also, though non-significant, could modestly influence students’ capability beliefs of both skills. Findings of this study are consistent with the tenets of social cognitive theory. As theorized, students’ capability beliefs are positively correlated with their writing and reading performance. In the other phase of the investigation, mastery experience, among the four sources, accounted for the greatest proportion of the variance in writing and reading efficacy of students.