Teachers/Trainers Attitude towards the Current Performance Management System in Selected TVET Government Institutions in Addis Ababa
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2008-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitude of teachers towards the
current performance management system and practices in selected sample
Government Technical Vocational Education and Training Institutions. While
including more institutions in the sample would have widened the focus of the
study, limited time and funding made such a wider study prohibitive. In order to
attain the objective of the study, descriptive method was employed. The data
collected were organized, analyzed, tabulated and interpreted using simple
percentage. As far as major findings of the study are concerned, significant
majority of the respondents stated their attitude that the appraisal system lacks
to include critical requirements, indicators that establish learning objectives
consistent with student needs and department expectations and appropriateness
of the performance measurement criteria to measure performance of trainers as
objectively as intended made the practices of teacher's appraisal in TVET
government institutions exhibit weaknesses which need to be urgently addressed
if teacher appraisal is to be used to improve the quality of teaching and
education.
Finally, the last section of the study deals with recommendations that are sought
to practical in solving the problems identified in the study.