An Assessment of the Quality of Education in Some Selected Private Higher Education Institutions in Addis Ababa
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2009-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The tudy aimed al assessing the quality of education in private higher learning institutions
in the cOl/text of Addis Ababa. it has attempted to assess the quality of education with
reference fo some of the input-process-output factors. The sample population was taken from
LX private higher learning institutions ill Addis Ababa based on their fields of specialization.
The institutions consist of two colleges majoring in business, two in leT field and another
two il/ medicine. The respondents were five administrators, 64 instructors and 277 students
from the selected private colleges. The method of the research was descriptive survey.
Questionnaires on four-point likert scale and interview checklists were used to gather data.
Based 01/ the dala analyzed, the sludy concluded that 'input' factors such as instructors'
iI/competence al/d inexperience, inadequate educational facilities and infrastructures have
negative impacts on quality of education. From the 'process' factors, the types of teaching
methods employed by instructors, the teaching learning process, inadequate leadership
capacity and incompetence of college managers and the irrelevance of the curriculum placed
negative impacts on quality of education. From 'output' factors, students' insufficient
development of necessary skills and knowledge and its subsequent effect on their
employability and effectiveness in the world of work were found to place a negative impact
01/ the dimension of quality of education in the scope of higher education. Based on the
conclusions drawn from the analysis, possible recommendations were forwarded
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Education