Analysis of Secondary School Internal Efficiency the Case of Guji Zone
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2011-04
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the situation of internal efficiency in
secondary schools of Guji zone, identify the major factors behind low school
internal efficiency and to suggest possible solutions. A descriptive survey
research method was applied. This involved an investigation of trends of internal
efficiency and factors that affect it in one way or another. The study was
conducted in 5 secondary schools selected using simple random sampling
technique. The subjects of the study were 495, out of which 310 of them were
students selected using simple random sampling, and the remaining 133, 2 1,
15, 10, and 6 of them were teachers, PTA members, parents, school principals
and educational experts respectively selected using purposive sampling. Data
were collected through questionnaire; a semi structured interview with parents; a
focus group discussion with PTA members and document analysis. The data
obtained were interpreted and analyzed using various statistical tools such as
percentage, mean, standard deviation and ANOVA. Results that emerged from
this study indicated that the average drop out and repetition rates for grade 9
during the five years under consideration were 17.4 percent and 15.3 percent
respectively and similarly the average secondary school dropout and repetition
rates were 12.65 percent and 11.2 percent respectively. In addition the result
reveals that the problem with drop out and repletion rate is worse in boys than in
girls. Moreover, results of this study indicated that the students experience
several barriers to learning that are related to teachers, student themselves,
school system, socio-economic, socio-cultural, and school management, which
could cause them either to drop out of school or repeat grades. This includes
factors such as students' lack of effort to study hard, low self conception, lack of
interest in education and low future success in education, lack of teachers
encouragement of students' performance and shortage of teachers, overcrowded
class rooms and lacle of school facilities, poor school management and poor
school community relationship, school distance and the need for child labor, and
peer group initiation. Due to these factors secondary education of the zone is
leaving behind about a quarter of its students every year. On the basis of these
findings, taking the societies's settlement condition into account before opening
new secondary school, early identification and targeting of learners at risk of
either dropping out of schools or repeating grades, organizing workshops,
evaluating students' performance continuously, and training more teachers on
the basis of school needs are forwarded as recommendations to alleviate the
problem of low secondary school internal efficiency in the zone.
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examine the situation of internal efficiency