Browsing by Author "Kassa, Tariku"

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    The Status and Determinants of Research Practices
    (Addis Ababa University, 2012-06) Kassa, Tariku; Chalchisa, Dessalegn (PhD)
    The general objective of this study was to investigate the status, determinant hindering factors, and determinant motivational strategies to the ERP of instructors of Ambo University where mixed method design was employed.The subjects of the study were 60 (male=55 and female=5) for survey and 6 for interview. Closed-ended questionnaire, open-ended questionnaire and interview were used to collect primary data. Document review was also used to collect secondary data related to AU’s mission statement and profiles of academic staffs. Quantitative and qualitative data analysis techniques were used to analyze the data. The results of the quantitative and qualitative data showed the status of ERP in Ambo University was found at the medium level status. It was also found that only 32(58.2%) instructors were involved to do research. There were differences in instructors’ involvement to do research in terms of their colleges and departments as it was found that colleges like 1st. CSSH, 2nd. CNCS, and 3rd, IEPS and in terms of departments, 1st English language and literature, 2nd physics, and 3rd Afaan Oromo & literature were highly in favor of ERP. Moreover, of the total respondents, majority of the sample instructors preferred action research over the other typologies of educational research. With respect to the selection of educational research methodologies, most of them preferred and applied mixed methods educational research. Multiple human, material, financial, and institutional factors hindered the involvement of AU instructors to do research like lack/inadequate research budget/fund and others. To overcome such deterring factors various applicable motivational strategies were investigated like accessing instructors’ to trainings and others
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    The Status and Determinants of Research Practices
    (Addis Ababa Univerisity, 2012-06) Kassa, Tariku; Chalchisa, Dessalegn(PhD)
    The general objective of this study was to investigate the status, determinant hindering factors, and determinant motivational strategies to the ERP of instructors of Ambo University where mixed method design was employed.The subjects of the study were 60 (male=55 and female=5) for survey and 6 for interview. Closed-ended questionnaire, open-ended questionnaire and interview were used to collect primary data. Document review was also used to collect secondary data related to AU’s mission statement and profiles of academic staffs. Quantitative and qualitative data analysis techniques were used to analyze the data. The results of the quantitative and qualitative data showed the status of ERP in Ambo University was found at the medium level status. It was also found that only 32(58.2%) instructors were involved to do research. There were differences in instructors’ involvement to do research in terms of their colleges and departments as it was found that colleges like 1st. CSSH, 2nd. CNCS, and 3rd, IEPS and in terms of departments, 1st English language and literature, 2nd physics, and 3rd Afaan Oromo & literature were highly in favor of ERP. Moreover, of the total respondents, majority of the sample instructors preferred action research over the other typologies of educational research. With respect to the selection of educational research methodologies, most of them preferred and applied mixed methods educational research. Multiple human, material, financial, and institutional factors hindered the involvement of AU instructors to do research like lack/inadequate research budget/fund and others. To overcome such deterring factors various applicable motivational strategies were investigated like accessing instructors’ to trainings and others. 1
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    Status and Determinants of Rural Households Livelihoods, Poverty, and Access to Agricultural Extension Services in Jimma Geneti Woreda, Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2021-06) Kassa, Tariku; Tufa, Worku
    The general objective of this study was to analyze the status and determinants of rural households‟ livelihoods, poverty, and access to agricultural extension services in Jimma Geneti woreda, Ethiopia. A mixed-research design was employed. The subjects of the study were 387 surveys and 90 qualitative study participants. Multi-stage sampling techniques were used to include samples in this study. Both primary and secondary data sources were used to collect and establish the dataset of this study. Survey questionnaires, in-depth interviews, non-participatory observation, and focus group discussion tools were used to collect primary data. To analyze the data, both quantitative and qualitative data analysis techniques were employed. Both the specific and general livelihood indices of the study area show a low/depleted state of livelihood sources. Enhancing rural households‟ information, financial, social, natural, physical, and human capital should not be circumvented. The extent of sample heads‟ livelihood diversification (measured by Simpson Index Diversity) was found low (0.27). That is, sample heads of the study area remained in low-return non-farm livelihood activities only (61.26%). Having a relative risk ratio (greater than 50%), multinomial regression analysis shows that households‟ place of residence, sex, education, marital status, and membership in cooperatives are found significant determinants of rural livelihood‟s choice of livelihood strategies at a 5% significant level. Hence, encouraging rural households to engage in remunerative livelihood strategies (non-farm, off-farm, and/or a combination of activities) requires action-oriented policies. Furthermore, the composite multidimensional livelihood security of samples was found 2.406. Ordered Logit model results show rural heads' Sex, Marital Status, member of cooperatives, Age, F_size, Dependency Ratio, and landholding significantly impacted their state of multidimensional livelihood security. Hence, wider considerations of rural households‟ multidimensional livelihood security analysis should be in place than narrow analysis of food and/or nutritional security alone. Results of descriptive statistics show that sample heads‟ state of multidimensional poverty was found higher (53.1%) than other developing countries like Indonesia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria but less than the national average. Results of the ordered logistic regression analysis revealed that kebele, marital status, literacy status, landholding, and membership in cooperatives of the household heads were among the determinants. Hence, policies and programs aiming to reduce rural heads‟ multidimensional poverty in the most deprived multidimensional poverty index indicators like school attendance and years of schooling should be a priority area. Attentions to decompose rural poverty into different categories enable planners to comprehensively understand it and reduce rural poverty. Alongside multidimensional poverty analysis, the involvement of the poor in poverty analysis shouldn‟t be overlooked. Sample heads access to agricultural extension services was found low. Weak links between agricultural research and farmers' extension problems, lack of coordination and communication between agricultural sectors and higher learning institutions, and lower salary level and fewer resources for field agricultural extension agents are found the major potential reasons/challenges that make sample households‟ non-accessed. Furthermore, the Logit model result shows that Kebele/”ganda” of the household head, access to agricultural extension training, access to credit service, irrigation use, and rural households‟ having a telephone were found the major determinant factors. Thus, agro-ecology and need-based, participatory, and pluralistic agricultural extension policy is needed