The Status of Research Activity Among Teaching Staffs of Desre Sirhan University
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2012-06
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Addis Ababauniversity
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The purpose of this study was to assess the current status of research activity among
teaching staffs of DBU. To conduct this research, mixed research method and descriptive
survey design was employed. The primary sources of data were 114 instructors, 4 school
and college head , ARQAD and RD. HEP, HERQAs documents, DBU senate legislation,
Research Records, Academic Year Plan and Research Proceedings were the secondary
data sources of the study. Purposive sampling, as well as stratified and simple random
sampling techniques were employed to select managements at different position and
sampled instructors. Questionnaires were the main data gathering instruments while unstructured
interview and document analysis were employed to enrich the data gathered
through questionnaires. Moreover, the collected data were analyzed quantitatively by
using descriptive statistics, and qualitatively using descriptive narration. The finding of
the study indicate that the educational qualification of instructors was belo;-the required
minimum standard to give instruction at HEIs, which has its own effect on teaching staff
research activity. Although about 74% of teaching staffs were conduct research before
they were hired in the university, only 36% were conducting research after hired in the
university. Teaching staffs positive altitude toward research in university and their
despondency with a research practice of their university is pointed out. In addition, the
services provided for those involved in research by the body that coordinates research
works of the university were not suffiCient, even though the efforts made so far to muscle
research capacity of the university is hopeful. The encouraging natures of top university
administrators as well as institutional research policy were found to be low. Personal,
Institutional, and Injrastructural challenges effect on teaching stajfi research activity
was evidenced. The presence of various finding dissemination mean was enhancing the
research activity of the university, while in-service research training as well as reSearch
symposiums of the university is unsatisfactory. Furthermore, the research activity of the
university is showing yearly progress, although what expected of teaching staffs by both
national and institutional policy with regard to research is not yet accomplished.
Consequently, the current status of research activity among teaching staffs of DBU was
found to be unsatisfactory when it was evaluated from the point of both institutional and
national policy expectation. Finally, necessary recommendations were forwarded for
improving the current status of research activity among teaching staff of DBU
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Research Activity Among Teaching Staffs