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    The Practices and Problems of Education Information System (EIS) Management in Oromia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2010-06) Kejela, Mekonnen; Oumer, Jeilu (PhD)
    This descriptive study was sought to examine the practices and problems of EIS management in Oromia. The study areas incorporated 64 schools, 16 districts, 6 zones, 2 city administrations and OEB, which were sampled through stratified random sampling and Simple random sampling techniques. Out of these areas, 20 OEB EMIS staff, 16 ZED statisticians, 34 DEO statisticians, 72 school principals were included in the study on purpose. Overall, out of 142 intended respondents for the questionnaire 128(90.14%) were actually participated in the study. Besides 11 interviewees - 2 from OEB, 3 from ZED, 3 from DEO and 3 from schools were the subject of the study. Moreover, 20 PTA members from three schools were also the discussion group for the study. To achieve what the study purported to attain and gather data from the respondents questionnaires, coupled with interview, focus group discussion (FGD), and document analysis were utilized. The data obtained were tabulated, analyzed and interpreted using the descriptive method. The data were statistically treated using frequency counts, percentages, standard deviation, rank order correlation coefficient, the chi-square test, · t-test and one-way classification of ANOVA. The result of the study indicated that EM1S had been conceptualized as data gathering devices from the field to inform decisions at national level. Hence, EMIS functions were limited to data gathering at schools, to summarizing at DEO and ZED. The EMIS does not include all aspects of education. Mainly datalinformation about educational processes and outputs was rarely existed in EMIS. Besides, qualitative aspects of education never appeared in the system. The quantitative ones dominate the approach. The available EMIS outputs were underutilized in areas like planning, monitoring, development of projects and programs, and allocating resources particularly at schools, DEO, and ZED. The demand and utilization of EMIS outputs lVerefound to be low at lower levels. Moreover, the EMIS outputs of the region appeared to be low in quality in terms of accuracy, presentation and timeliness. Overall, the EMIS of the region suffered from human and material capacity constraints. The conclusion is thus, EIS management of the region is not effective to serve the functions it intends to serve. Therefore, the researcher recommended OEB, ZED, DEO, and schools to act on redesigning EMIS to make it demand driven supply net work, on the development of demand and utilization of EMIS outputs on the part of users, and on capacity building activities.