The Attitudes of Teachers and Students Towards Using Plasma Television for Instruction in the General Secondary Schools of Bahir Dar Special Zone
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2007-03
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Addis Ababa University
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The purpose of this study was to assess the attitudes of teachers and students
towards using plasma television for instruction in the general secondary schools of Bahir
Dar special zone. To realize the purpose of the study, the necessary data were secured
from 66 teachers and 374 students using a descriptive survey approach.
A forty-six item attitude questionnaires (twenty-six for teacher respondents and
twenty for student respondents) based upon the Likert Scale were administered. The data
obtained through open-ended questionnaires, interviews (with school principals and zone
education office head) and observations have been included in the analysis of data as
pertinent information. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were employed. The
data were tabulated, analyzed and interpreted using frequency percentages and chisquare.
The findings showed that in both teachers' and students' responses, there was no
statistically significant attitudi nal difference between the respondents favoring rating
levels for using plasma television for instruction. The identified attitudinal difference in
terms of sex and school variations of the respondents was found to be statistically nonsignifi
cant.
Moreover, the findings showed that factors affecting the attitudes of respondents
were centered around the mode of presentation of TV teachers and inadequacy of
televised teaching learning faciliti es/aspects. It was thus suggested that factors affecting
the respondents' attitude should be considered so as to fac ilitate televi sed teachinglearning
process.
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Students Towards Using Plasma Television for Instruction