FACTORS THAT AFFECT COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS OF DAMOT WOIDE DISTRICT, WOLAITA ZONE.
- Lecturer ,Institute of Education and Professional Development Studies, Department of Educational Leadership and Management. Mettu University, Mettu Ethiopia.
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The purpose of this study was to assess the factors that affect community participation in the implementation of School improvement program in primary schools of Damot Woide District /Woreda, Wolaita Zone. Descriptive survey design was employed to carry out this study. The survey sample consisted of 8 primary schools, 16 school principals , 129 teachers, 1 woreda education office expert and 1 educational office head, 24 PTA, 40 SIC, 8 KETB and 2 supervisors. These groups of samples were selected using purposive sampling and simple random sampling techniques. Data collecting instruments like questionnaire, semi-structured interview, document analysis and FGD were used to collect data.. To analyze the data collected through questionnaire, mean, standard deviation and weighted mean were employed. The major findings of the study were: The sample school had lack of community participation in decision making process of the school management and lack of good governance and leadership skills of the principal; lack of well-developed school policies, rules, regulation, norms and no appropriate strategy for the school to encourage and provide community services, information about school improvement program; poor follow up of the community to their children in close relation to the school and lack of Participation of community in different school meetings to discuss effectiveness and efficiency of the school. The major conclusion of the study were the schools lack well-developed school polices rules, regulation and norms to participate the community as a member of the school. In most cases, the reluctance of the community to participate actively in School Improvement Program due to lack of good governance and poor quality of principal in leadership skill, poor commitment of the school community (teachers, PTA, KETB and SIC) to involve the community in School Improvement Program and weak strategy for the school to provide community services and recent information about School Improvement Program are among the factors that contribute to the low level of community participation in School Improvement Program. On the basis of these major findings and conclusion, it is recommended that the school principals and teachers should have the responsibilities to furnish parent community and the whole community with clear and accurate information regarding the objective of education, school goals and program, prepare training programs for parents to work together with the school.
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