Teachers' Participation in Decision Making In the Technical and Vocational Schools of Ethiopia
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1995-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The major purpose of this study was to ecxamine the level of existing and desire of
teachers in technical/vocational schools of Ethiopia to participate in decision making
process.
Data was collected through questionnaire, unstructured interviews, observation and
document analysis. A questionnaire was distributed to 10 government and 2 nongovernment
schools and elicited 227 responses. The same questionnaire was completed by
52 academic teachers, 163 technical/vocational teachers and 12 principals or the total 22 of
them were females.
For the purpose of analysis, different statistical techniques such as percentage, chisquare,
t-test, scheffe test, correlation coefficient and ANOV A were employed. In the final
analysis, the study revealed that significant difference was observed between the existing
and desired level of participation. That is, the level of existing teachers' participation is
considerably very hi_ . Yet, there is a significant difference between the views of the
groups of respondents (positions) concerning desired level of participation. Strong
association was observed between the goups of respondents concerning the importance
attached to decision categories. It revealed that females perceive less level of participation
than males. The study also showed that, as years of experience and academic qualification
increase, the level of participation also increase
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Decision Making