Major Factors Affecting Training Performance of Tvet Colleges in the Amhara National Regional State
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2010-06
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Addis Ababa University
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This is a research done to examine and identify the major constraints at levels 3 and 4 of TVET colleges in
providing training. The researcher was specifically inspired to study this area as there existed and still
exist various problems in providing training in the TVET colleges; the salient ones being the factors
affecting training performances unfavorably and those which adversely influence the apprenticeship
program.
The study aims at solving two key problems that restricted the colleges in the provision of quality
training: the major institutional factors and apprenticeship-related issues affecting the training
performance of TVET colleges. The scope of the study, on the one hand, covers six of the ten nonagricultural
TVET colleges in the Amhara National Regional State.
Besides the inferential and descriptive statistics employed as research methodology, the investigator also
made use of a mixed approach of data analysis. And to this purpose, both quantitative and qualitative
approaches were used. The data collection instruments used were questionnaires, interviews, focus group
discussion and observation. While 400 trainees out of the 5000 and 260 trainers out of the 800 were
selected using stratified random sampling technique; the availability sampling technique was used to
select the deans, apprenticeship officers, etc.
In the attempts made to discover the factors which have effects on the training program, the writer of
this paper set some nine variables that do have direct or indirect repercussions on the training
performance. These were: physical set up, information, trainers' capacity, motivation of trainers and
trainees, guidance and counseling services, provision of training materials, management, training
process, and finally apprenticeship program. The results of the research unambiguously revealed that all
the variables, tested through various techniques and confirmed by the various respondents, were
practically affecting the training program of TVET colleges.
Thus, the general implication that can be drawn from the study is that the management in the colleges,
the TVET commission, the trainers, the trainees, both private and government firms, the government
(both regional and federal), and the SOCiety are responsible to all the impediments on the quality of the
TVET colleges training program. The research, moreover, implied that the trainees who have undergone
through such an impaired training program could not be competent enough in the world of work.
Therefore, the writer expresses his conviction that the findings of this research do add a lot of worthwhile
propositions to the body of knowledge and expects a realistic measures on the part of all the stakeholders
as their contributions can positively change the status to a considerable leap
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Affecting Training Performance