The Contributions of Communities in Improving Quality of Education in Secondary Schools of South West Shoa Zone,
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2020-06
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the contributions of communities in improving
quality of education in South West Shoa Zone of Oronia Regional state and indicates
solutions to the problem identified. In addition, the study was intended to give answers to:
What are the current practices, challenges, opportunities, and the possible solutions of
community participation in improving quality of education to alleviate the problems of
community participation in schools. For this study descriptive survey design was employed.
The target population for the study were teachers, school principals, vice principals,
secondary school supervisors, PTA chairpersons and woreda education office heads. Due
to the small population size, principals, vice principals, supervisors, PTA chairpersons and
WEO heads were drawn from eight schools by using availability sampling technique and
the teachers were selected by simple random sampling technique. In this study both
qualitative and quantitative methods were used. In order to collect data, questionnaires,
interview and document analysis were used to collect data to answer the above research
questions. The instruments were validated by advisors and experts and a pilot study was
carried out and reliability coefficient of 0.77 was obtained.Data was collected both from
primary and secondary sources. The primary data was obtained directly from the sample
teachers, school principals and vice principals, supervisors and PTA chairpersons by using
questionnaires and from woreda education office heads on using semi-structured
interview. The major findings concerning the current practices of community participation
in improving quality of education was not satisfactory.Regarding to the factors that affect
community participation. Again, the strategies to be used by the schools and WEOs to
enhance community participation in improving quality of education were found to be low.
Thus, to improve the situation, allowing the community to participate actively in schools,
provide adequate training to the school principals, teachers and community
representatives on their roles and responsibilities, creating conducive working
environment to attract the community, participating the community in planning,
implementing, managing, monitoring and evaluation, participating the community
representatives in decision making process and arrange appropriate time of meeting on
common interest are recommended.