The Impact of National Learning Assessment Recommendations on the Ethiopian Education and Training Policy Implementation
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2010-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
While education enrolment increases are importanl, Iheyare not sufficient. As a result, within
the Ethiopian Education Sector Development Programs (If & If I) attention has been paid to
the quality of education necessary to ensure that students that graduate fi'om the first and
second cycle of primwy school leave with the requisite skills to be a contribuling citizen and
be prepared for secondary school. In augmenting this effort for quality education, therefore,
National Learning Assessments have been begun by the Ministry of Education since 2000.
Hence, this study focuses on the aim that encourages and supports the effort being exhibited in
National Learning Assessment, in particular, and in the education and training quality
assurance, in general. The study mainly employed qualitative approach of data collection -
individual interviews and document analysis. A quantitative description using data out of a
piloted questionnaire was also used. As an evaluative survey study, it was a non-sampled
research with a subsequent nature of retrospeclion. The data analysis, by and large, was a
qualitative advancing using explanation, descriplion, comparisons and contrasts and a
triangulation exercise with the use of the data from the three data collection tools. It was found
that there was a clear perception of a significant impacl of the NLA recommendations on the
Ethiopian Education and Training Policy implementation. While the NLA recommendations so
far forwarded were practically utilizable and well attended by the policymakers and decision
makers in the sector, it was revealed that there is a significant problem in the dissemination of
the summary reports of the National Learning Assessments to everyone in need. Thus, the
implications of this study are supposed to be the vitality of the development and realization of
a national policy framework on learning assessment, the introduction of census-based
assessmenl, fluency in the dissemination of the NLA reporls to all interested and the country's
need to participate in regional/international assessments for better benchmarking of best
practices.
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National Learning Assessment, Recommendations on the Ethiopian Education