Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to identify the input factor that improve the
education quality in secondary schools of Gambella town administration, in
Gambella Region. Descriptive survey design was employed to carry-out the study
which enabled the researcher to describe the present status of the problem under
study. The necessary data from both primary and secondary sources were
collected. The primary data for the study was collected from 80 students
(45Males and 35 Females), 55 teachers (50 Males and 5 Females) and 8 (7 male
and 1 female) secondary schools principals and vice principals drawn from the
four sample schools as well as, 21 parents teachers association. The secondary
data was collected from documents. There are four secondary schools in
gambella town and they were selected through availability sampling because they
are the only government secondary schools existed in the Town and stratified
random sampling and purposive sampling for the students and teachers. The
teachers were stratified based on their departments and they were also
purposively selected based on their respective school. The students were stratified
based on their sections and they were also randomly selected based on their
section. And the purposive sampling was used for PTA members and school
principals because they are very concerned bodies. The instruments employed to
collect data from the respondents were questionnaire, interview, FGD and
observation. The quantitative data gathered from the respondents was analyzed
by using frequency and percentage, and the qualitative data was analyzed
through narration. The findings of the study revealed that, the main input factors
that affect education quality are: poor school physical environment such as, lack
of toilets, cafeteria, classrooms, Shortage of learning and teaching materials,
large number of students in a class and low motivation of teachers and principals
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because of lack of incentives and lack of stakeholders participation. The results of
the study also show that, to improve quality education, provide enough teaching
materials, construction of more classrooms and toilets. In recommendation there
was poor school physical environment due to hot climate, high shortage of
classrooms, lack of enough toilets/ latrine, lack of laboratory rooms and lack of
enough teachers offices, that have a significant negative impact on education
quality. Therefore, Gambella Education Bureau in collaboration with the Federal
ministry of Education and stakeholders in order to solve this poor school physical
environment, they are recommended to find fund and build another classrooms,
toilet/latrines, laboratory, teacher’s offices and clinic rooms
