A Study on the Problems Encountered During The Implementation of Free Promotion Policy in the First Cycle Primary Schools of Hawassa Woreda
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2013-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The general abjeclive of this study was to invesligale the role of school improvement program in
enhancing quality of education at secondOlY schools. A mixed approach with purposive and
simple random sampling lechniques was used 10 select teachers and sludenls Fom secondary
schools of Arada sub-city in Addis Ababa. The principal objectives such as 10 examine SIP
status, identify ils impacts and assessing the improvements made by the program had been
evaluated carefidly. 171e surveyed data were analyzed using SPSs. The findings of the study
reveal that relatively encouraging achievements have been made at Ihe school level, with respect
10 the learning and teaching domain. However, achievement in Ihe school environment and
community involvement domains were found 10 be very low. Furthermore, lack of reward for
Ihose who pel/ormed well ii, lack of awareness, and praclical involvement of the communily,
lack of awareness among sludenls, and leachers, turnover of man power and lack of qualified
operalional man power were idenlified as Ihe major challenges in implementing SIP. The
findings also indicated thai Ihere are no inlegraled efforts of all stakeholders in the
implemenlation process. This indicates that the school improvemenl programme has become a
well arliculated program in Ihe documenl, bul it is not as ,/i-uiljiil as il was expected on the
ground. In ils third year implementalion slage and significanl land marks, improvemenls were
not observed so far in all domains, Fom the four domains the most discouraging being the
school environment and the community involvement domains.
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Role of School Improvement Program