Input Factors That Improve Education Quality In Gambella Town Secondary School Of Gambella

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 vi 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