Assessment of in-School Factors Affecting The Quality of Education in Government Secondary Schools of Arada Sub City in Addis Ababa
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2017-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The main purpose of this study was to identify in-school factors affecting the quality of education in government secondary schools in Addis Ababa: in case of Arada sub city to address this study, the four basic research questions were what are the major in-school factors that affect the quality of education in Secondary government schools of Arada Sub city? To what extent does the level of competence and experience of school Principals affect quality of secondary education? How do teachers and school principals view the relevance and appropriateness of the curriculum for secondary schools? What Strategies are helpful to manage the in-school factors affecting the quality of education in secondary schools of Arada sub -city? For this purpose, four government secondary schools were randomly selected from all six secondary schools in the sub-city. The respondents were 320students,74 teachers,16 department heads, 12 vice principals, 4 principals 3 supervisors, . All were randomly sampled except principals and supervisors who were taken as whole. To gather information, questionnaire on five point liker scale, interview, and observation, analysis were used. from the field were coded and entered in to the computer for analysis using SPSS version-20 for windows. Descriptive and inferential statistics were applied for data analysis. Reliability of the instrument was computed by using reliability statistics. The results of the data analysis were presented using frequency, percentage. The study revealed that even if there is much emphasis on improving quality of education, still no considerable progress has been observed in the study area. According to the key finding of this study, mainly focused on factors related to students capacity & motivation, related to teachers knowledge, skills, experience & motivation, related to teachers competency and training, related to. Relevance and development of the curriculum, related to school facilities, related to class size, related to instructional language used in teaching and learning, and strategies to be taken in order to improve the quality of education. To alleviate the prevailing problems, there is a need to upgrade and check the professional quality of teachers since good school facilities, small size class-room and other adequate resources alone cannot yield good results. Finally, the researcher based on the finding recommended that strong collaboration among stakeholders is one of important tools to insure quality of education in Arada sub city .
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Assessment of in-School Factors Affecting