Assessment of the Factors Affecting the Effectiveness of Blind Teachers in Primary Schools of Addis Ababa: the Case of two Selected Schools
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2020
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AAU
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The main objective of this study was to examine the nature and type of factors affecting
the effectiveness of blind teachers in their teaching role at Primary School level in Addis
Ababa, namely Tesfa kokob and Caramara, in relation to students’ attitude towards their
teaching practice, acceptance level of their knowledge and performance in the same
way as sighted peer teachers, their self-efficacy in their teaching role and their social
relationship with students, sighted peer teachers and school leaders. Thus, to achieve
the desired objectives the study was guided by four basic research questions, the
sample of 377 respondents were selected by using purposive, proportionate random
sampling and simple random sampling methods. Descriptive research method with
mixed research design was employed as a better option for examining factors affecting
blind teachers’ effectiveness. Close ended Questionnaire and interview were used in
collecting the data. The findings revealed that the overall effectiveness of blind teachers
in both schools, were generally not to the expected level. Most of the items in
knowledge and performance recognition level, in social relationship level, the self-
efficacy level, attitude towards the effectiveness in teaching practice were not fully
practiced or somewhat partly practiced regardless of the fact that blind teachers
evaluated themselves as they had high self-efficacy in nearly all items and other
respondents also rated them as having good practice in very few areas like subject
knowledge, punctuality, free expression of feelings, fairness, etc. Thus, most elements
of effectiveness in teaching role were compromised that might have direct impact on
quality of education and students’ academic achievement unless immediate measures
such as well-designed customized and skill gap filling oriented trainings will be
delivered
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Effectiveness, attitude, self-efficacy, relationship, blind and performance