An Assessment of the Current Status of Quality of Education in Private Higher Education Institutions: The Case of Mekelle
| dc.contributor.author | Mottl, Girma | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-01-09T14:24:33Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-10T13:02:45Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-01-09T14:24:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-10T13:02:45Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Th e purpose ojlhis sludy was 10 underJland and assess Ih e currenl slaWs oj qualily oj educclliun fakin g inlo accounl qualily indicalors in PHEls in M ekelle. To conducl Ihis research , descriplive survey melhod was e mployed. The primary sources oj dala were 65 inslrue/ ors, 145 second and Ihird year undergraduale degree r egular program sludenls and jour academic vice deans. Purpo sive sampling, simple random sampling and slralified random sampling lec hniques were employed 10 select academic vice deans, inslruclor s and sludenls respeclively. Likewise, Ih e collecled dala were a nalyzed quanlilali ve ly by us ing descriplive and injerenlial slalislics, and qualitalively by using descriplive narralion. · Queslionnaires were Ihe 'main dafa gathering instruments while inl ervi ew, observalion and do cum enl analysis were employed 10 enrich the data gathered Ihr ough queslionnaires. The jinding oj Ih e sludy mirrors thaI th e educalional qualificalion oj ins/ruClors was below Ihe required minimum slandard 10 give instruction al degree level. The academic staffs were less qualified to conducl the teaching - learning process effectively b ec ause abolll half oj them were not acquainted with the conceplo/pedagogy, had low educational qualification and less teaching experience and lacked on Ih e job Iraining oPPo rlun il ies. Besides, th e services provided by Ihe support slOfj.i· were nm suj)7cienl e ven/hough Ihe background ojlheir s tudenls was weak. The pill'sicallocalion o/ PI-JEls are nO I co nven ienljor ej{eCl ive inslruclional underlaking du e 10 Ih e /loises u./neighboring mus ic shops, hO lels. bars and sound oj vehi cles. Educa tional jilcililies al1d il1ji"asll"llclurc s were nOI complele enough to materialize ejlecli ve leaching Icoming process. Moreaver. Ihe leaders and managers were nOI projicient in crealing posilire working environm enl and Ih ey were also less qualified in mobilizing resources 10 jii/jill edllcalionaljacililies, in building decision - making capacity jor teachers and sluden ls. Besides. the c urricu la r mCll erials were not sujjicien/ excepl the course g uides and teachers' hand ouls 10 give quality inslruclion at degree level. Moreover, t he re was an imp lementCllion boltleneck with respect to mel h ods oj teac hing and assessment. Thus , lecture method and summative e valuation w er e the most frequently utilized methods oj teaching and assessm ent respectively. Graduate tracer studies were not succesJjully carried out by most sa mpled PHEls. From Ihe survey, the pass rale oj graduales oj PI-JEl s was g realer Ihan the rale oj employmenl. As a r esult, th e currenl status oj qllalily 0.( educati on in PHEIs in Mekelle was jound 10 be not promising when it was evalualed Fom Ih e point of input indicators, pro cess indicators and out put indicators as benchmarks oj quality oj edu calion. Finally, necessary recommendalions were give n jor improving Ihe c urren t status oj quality oj educ ation by indicaling what to be stressed fo r conductingjurlh er s tudies. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/15589 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Current Status of Quality of Education | en_US |
| dc.title | An Assessment of the Current Status of Quality of Education in Private Higher Education Institutions: The Case of Mekelle | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |