Assessment of the Implementation of Current School Improvement Program in Secondary Schools of Horo Guduru Wollega
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2011-04
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Addis ababa univeresty
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The lIIain purpose oflhis study was 10 assess the current praclice oflhe school illlprovement progralll and
thereby to identify Ihe major constraints those hinder Ihe progralll e./Jecliveness in secondmy schools of
Horo Gudum Wollega; Ihen 10 provide possible solulions to Ihe idel1li}ied problems. To achieve this
purpose, descriptive survey lIIethod was employed. The study was conduced in eight secondmy schools
Ihat were drawn randomly from a total of twelve secondmy schools in sampled woredas. Then frOIll each
school and respective woreda leachers and job pel/ormers/ experts were selected by using random
salllpling leclmique where as school principals and WEO.heads were selected on p.urposive basis by
virtue of decisive position they assume perlaining 10 the issue under discussion. For this sflldy,
queslionnaire was used as the lIIain instrumel1l of dafa col~ ion frOIll leachers and WEO job pel/orlllers.
Accordingly, 150 copies in two sels were distribuled out of which 115fi'01ll Ieachers and 27 frOIll WEO
job pel/orlllers were properly filled and retumed. The data ob fain ed frOIll quesliol1llClires were analyzed
using quantitalive slalislical lools sllch as freq uency COUlII, percel1lage, weighled point index and chi
square lest. On the olher hand, the data oblained through inlerview, FGD, observalion check lisl and
parlly document review were analyzed qualitalively in narralion mode so as to subsfan tiate Ihe result of
quanlitative analysis. The findings of stlldy indicaled that teachers' parlicipalion in CPD progralll was
not adequate 10 conlribute 10 leachers professional developlllent in parlicular, and to enable Ihem
discharge Iheir pOlentials in alignment with Ihe priorities of school improvemel1l in general. School
leadership and management parlicularly school principals were nol found in a position to e./Jectively run
SIP due to mar.,ly knowledge, skill and comlllilment fac tors. Hence, . Ihey failed to develop arliculaled
strategic plan. As a consequence, th~ e.rogram objectives were not well addressed. In addition 10 Ihis, .--:p L----'"
majority of schools were neither equipped with necessmy physical fac ilities, equipment and educalional
m9terials conducive [or studel1ls ' learning nor utilized these resources efficienlty. , Hence, physical
conditions were less promising than social conditions. Furthermore, communily members could not have
adequate mvareness abollt the progralll. Thus, it was found that their level of participalion to o./Jer any
necessmJI support was passive. In addilion, il was fo und that the major facto rs that affected effeclive
illlplelllenlation of the SIP in the siudy area were: acute shortage offinancial resource, lack of COIIIIIIWl ily
sense of school ownership and absence of consiSlent follow up and supervisO/y support frO Ill WEO and 'olhers. Helice, frO Ill Ihe result of Ihe study, it was concJ.y.ded thai sillce 111051 of the activities across Ihe
four dOlllains were 1101 embedded ill Ihe schools, SIP'7i7 the study area was not implelllenied as envisaged
by the f ramework As the result, schools were
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meet/he desired s/udents' achieve ment.
Therefore, 10 alleviale Ihe proble",s of Ihe school illlprovemeni praclice, il Was recollimelided Ihal
ill/reserved e./Jorl need 10 be IIlCIde to encourage CPD and capacily building lraining opporllll/ilies for
leachers and principals. In addilion, school enl'ironlllent should be safe and worlhy for sludenls : leaming
10 lake place. To do so, school should work jOintly wilh leachers, parents and COIIIIIIUllily me;nbers to
lIIinimize resource and olher constraints. On lap of lhis, lechnically, well designed slralegic plan thai can
serve as a model along wilh various doclllllellls ()f SIP should be dislribUied for all schools.
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