Assessment of Internal Efficiency of Education at Secondary Schools of Hadiya Zone
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2020-08
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The purpose of this study was to assess the status of internal efficiency of educational
system of secondary schools in Hadiya Zone. A descriptive survey method was employed
and both primary and secondary sources were used. As primary sources data were
collected from 190 sample teachers, 6 principals, 24 PTSA and 6 supervisors of sample
schools. In addition, document reviewed including records that show the enrolment,
repetition and promotion of students at different years at each sample schools were also
used as secondary sources. With regard to the sample and method of sampling, available,
and simple random sampling methods were used. In order to collect data, four data
collection instruments were used. Those were; questioner, interview, document Analysis
and observation checklists. To analyze data, mixed approaches were used. Accordingly, to
identify the personal characteristics of respondents and the trend of internal efficiency of
schools in the zone, frequency, average mean and percentage were used, besides to
examine the major causes of internal efficiency the degree to which stakeholders aware of
its impacts. Based on the research finding, most of the school principals and supervisors
had gap of awareness about drop-out rate and repetition. Zonal trends of secondary
education in relation to dropout rate of school have indicated that oscillating from years to
years. Dropout rate trend of females in the sampled woredas were higher than male
counterpart as of the zonal trend. The researcher concluded that the trend of dropout rate
at zone, woreda and sampled secondary schools were highly characterized by ups and
downs that could be major problem to Zonal. To solve these problems, the researcher
recommended that School principals, school teachers, KEBs and political authority should
have made continues discussion, creating awareness with pupil parents and making them
responsible to minimize students’ school dropout and repetition.