In Partial Fulfilment of The Requrments For The Degree Master of Arts In Educational Leadership And Management
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2014-06
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Addis Ababauniversity
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The main purpose of this study was to identify the status of quality education is given in government or private preparatory schools in Addis Ababa in line with educational input, process and output. For this purpose, three government and eight private preparatory schools were randomly selected from all preparatory schools in all sub-cities. The respondents were 813 students, 108 teachers, 81 department heads, 12 unit leaders, 3 supervisors, 100 parents. All were randomly sampled except department heads and principals who were taken as whole. To gather information, questionnaire on five point likert scale, interview, and document analysis were used. Questionnaire and document analysis were analyzed quantitatively, while interview were qualitatively. Based on the analyzed data, the study concluded that private preparatory schools were better in most aspects such as teachers and material resources, teaching and learning process, students related factors, instructional time, parents participation and achievement of students in national examination. But in leadership system, government schools were better. Therefore, private preparatory schools are serving society with better quality education than the governments do. Based on conclusion drawn from the finding, government schools were recommended to strengthen their educational input training, and the material too giving priority during budget allocation. Also in the process, they need to have strong rules and regulations to control ill-discipline of the students, and wastage of instructional time. Moreover, government schools are supposed to increase parents’ participation. Private schools also were recommended to create strong leadership system that is capable in creating conducive working environment
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Educational Leadership And Management