The Attitudes of Teachers and Students Towards Using Plasma Television For Instruction in the Generalsecondary Schools of Bahir Dar Special Zone
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2007-03
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The purpose of thi s study was to assess the attitudes of teac hers and s tud en ts
towards usi ng plasma te levision for instr uction in th e general second ary sc ho o ls o r Bahir
Dar special zo ne. To realize th e purpose of the study, the necessary data were secu red
from 66 teachers and 374 students usi ng a descrip tive survey approach.
A fo rty-six item att itud e questionnaires (twenty-six for teacher re sponden ts and
twenty fo r student re spondents) based upo n the Likert Scale were administered. The data
obtained through open-ended questionnaires, interviews (with schoo l principal s and zone
education office head) and ob servat io ns have been in cluded in the analys is of data as
pert inent information. Both qua li tative and quanti ta tive meth ods we re employed. The
data were tabulated, ana lyzed a nd interp reted using frequency pe rcentages and chisq
uare.
The finding s showed th at in both teachers' and stud ents' responses, there was no
statist icall y significant attitudinal difference between the respond ents favoring rating
level s for us in g plasm a television for instruction. The id entifi ed attitudi nal difference in
terms of sex and school variations of the respo nde nts was found to be statisti call y nonsignifi
cant.
Moreover, the fi nd ings showed that factors affecti ng the attitudes of re spond ent s
were ce nt ered around the mode of presentation of TV teachers and inad equacy of
televised teachi ng learning facilit ies/a spects. It was thu s suggested that factor s affecting
the responde nts' attitude s houl d be considered so as to facilitate telev ised teachinglearnin
g process.
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Students Towards Using Plasma Television