Perceptions of Secondary School Principals, Teachers and Students on Quality Education, Bahirdar City: Ethiopia

Abstract

This study attempted to find out the perceptions of principals, teachers and students about quality of education in secondary school in Bahir dar city. The research design for the study is descriptive survey. The samples for this study were 7 principals and vice principals, 112 teachers (98 males and 14 females) and 401 students (193 males and 208 females). The data gathers through questionnaires, observation and interview. A questionnaire was analyzed quantitatively. This study attempted to find out the perceptions of principals, teachers, and students about quality of education in descriptive statistics. For the descriptive statistic, the researcher used mean. To check the significant difference between respondents the inferential statistics, one – way ANOVA SPSS version 20 was used. The findings of the study revealed that principals’ over whelming viewed quality education in terms of input indicator with a total mean value of (3.4), in terms of the process indicators with a total mean value of (3.4) and in term of output indicator with a total mean value of (3.32) fall in average. Teachers believe that education quality in terms of input indicators with a total mean of (3.5) near to good, In terms of process indicators with a total mean value of (3.70) near to good. And in terms of output indicators with a total mean value of (3.4) that is fall to on average. Students believed educational quality in terms of input indicator with a total mean of (3.10) fall on average, in terms of process indicator with a total mean value of (3.70) and interims of output indicators with a total mean value of (3.70) that is near to good. Especially laboratory equipment and facilities, library (space & number of reference materials, teachers in terms of their pedagogical knowledge and skills are still below average in the sample school. As the result of this study indicated, students, teachers and principals perceived process factor of quality education especially student centered factor below the average. In addition, the one way ANOVA result showed that there is a significant difference between the respondents of input and output factors. On the other hand there is no significance difference between the respondents on process factors. As a whole they responded that input, process and out factor affect the quality of education.