Achievements and Challenges in Implementing General Education Quality Improvement Program in Government Secondary School of Arsizone of Oromia Regional State
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2015-06-01
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Addis Ababa University
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The study aimed at conducting a study on the Achievements and Challenges in Implementing General Education Quality Improvement Program in Arsi Zone of Oromia national regional state. For this, five basic questions were formulated, which emphasized the successfulness of GEQIP, pillars got more emphasis, the appropriateness of indicators used for evaluation of GEQIP, the achievement and challenges in implementing GEQIP. The sources of data were woreda and zone education officials, teachers, students, school principals, supervisors and school PTA members (that run and support GEQIP).Questionnaires, interview and FGD were used to gather both quantitative and qualitative data. A multi-stage sampling strategy was used to select sample schools. 393 students and 123 teachers sample respondents were selected randomly fom eight first cycle secondary schools (9-10) and eight second cycle secondary schools ( 11-12) ;Accordingly, out of the 516 questionnaires, 514 (99.6%) were filled in and returned. Moreover, additional data were properly gathered through interview, Focus Group Discussion and document review from 8 supervisors, 28 Schools Parent Teachers Association members, 23 Woreda education officials and 16 Principals. Based on the four major components and two supplementary of GEQIP: Curriculum, text book and assessment; School Improvement Program;Teacher Development Program; Management and Administration; ICT and CEE have been investigated and analyzed by different research instruments as much as possible.Data obtained were analyzed and entered into the computer using appropriate statistical package for the social science (SPSS version 21 .0) software and manually considering the descriptive nature of the study. The quantitative data were edited, organized and tabulated by using SPSS with fequency , percentage and average. The findings revealed that shortage of qualified teachers; high student dropout; large teacher pupils ratio; large class size; high failure in national examination of grade 10 and 12 that is 71% and 44.8 % respectively; Poor functioning of CPD program; poor monitoring, evaluation and feedback giving system for the function of planning and program. Overall the result of this study to achieve the general objectives of the GEQIP recommends that zone and woreda education office with collaboration of stakeholders and other bodies (woreda administrative office. Regional education Bureau, Governmental and nongovernmental organization and community at the large) who are concerned and linking with implementing and functioning for improvement of GEQIP are expected to take in to consideration; to solve shortage of qualified teachers, to manage educational wastage such as high student dropout and failure in national examination for the final success of the GEQIP implementation.
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Achievements and Challenges in Implementing General Education Quality