ASSESSMENT ONCOMMUNITY PARTICIPATION FOR QUALITY OF EDUCATION IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF EAST HARARGHE ZONE

Abstract

The study title is the assessment on community participation for quality education in secondary schools of east harerghe zone. The main objective of this study was to assess the extent of community participation for quality education in secondary schools of East Hararghe. The researcher employed descriptive study type of design. Three methods of data collection were used which are questionnaire, interview, focus and documentary review. Whereby data was analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively uses SPSS 20.Questionnaire was the main data gathering instrument while interviews and document analysis were employed to enrich the data gathered through questionnaire. The study was conducted in eight secondary schools in the East Hararghe zone of Oromia Region. The primary sources of data were school leaders, teachers and PTA. A simple random sampling technique was employed to select teachers. On the other hand, school leaders, and PTA members were selected using availability sampling. A total of 154 respondents were participated in the study comprising of 56 school leaders, 90 teachers and 8 PTA members. Overall, the community participation in the quality education of Secondary school curriculumin the eight schools studied was found to be low. The roles of the school community in the implementation quality education are found inadequate. Secondary school quality education needs a shared efforts and responses from teachers, school leaders and PTAs. It is recommended that partnership and interaction between community and school in implementing quality education must be built to provide initiative, responsibility, sensitivity for participation in education and school governance designed to improve community participation in the quality education of secondary school.