Classroom Instructional Problems And Other Constraints as Correlates of School Interruption in East Shoa Zone
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2001-05
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Investigation of the problem of school interruption, factors
associated with interruption and its consequences, involving grades
9,10 & 11 three Senior High Schools in East Shoa Zone, Oromia
Region was conducted for six months (October 2000-1April 2000a).
The data were collected by means of two questionnaire and
interview as well as document study. Different methods of data
analysis (including t-test and ANOV A) were used in the study.
The results indicated that school interruption was pervasive in
the zone for the last three years ranging from 14.0 percent to 19.8
percent and from 20.9 to 25.6 source for males and females
respectively. It was more acute for females and for grade 9 students.
The major causes of interruption were identified to be (1) difficulty in
the language of instruction, irrelevance of curriculum, students' fear of
academic failure, dissatisfaction with the quality of teaching, and
shortage of classrooms or desks on one hand; and (2) economic
constraint, parental pressure for early marriage, parental need for
child labor perceived future prospect for employment or for further
education and family separation. The cumulative effect of factors
under these two categories had influenced both males and females in
all the three grade levels equally. However, selected factors such as
difficulty in the language of instruction (affected grade 9 more), fear of
academic failure and parental pressure for early marriage (affected
males and females, respectively) and parental pressure for early
marriage again affected females or males with in a selected grade
levels.
Implications forwarded in terms of intervention strategies
include: reviewing and improving the curriculum and methods of
teaching English, professional qualification of teachers, school
facilities, and building close contacts with parents, government and
non government institutions.
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Classroom Instructional Problems