THE STATUS OF ACTIVE LEARNING APPROACH IN SELECTED SECOND CYCLE PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN LEMU – BILBILO WOREDA, ARSI ZONE, OROMIA REGIONAL STATE, ETHIOPIA
Creators: name: WONDU HUNDIE
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019
Subjects: perception, practices, challenges, opportunities, active learning status.

description: <em>The purpose of this study was to assess the practices, challenges, opportunities, and status of</em><br> <em>active learning approach in selected second cycle primary schools of Lemu - Bilbilo Woreda in</em><br> <em>Arsi Zone. It used mixed research approach of convergent parallel type design and. descriptive</em><br> <em>survey method to collect both quantitative and qualitative data and analyze them. Primary source</em><br> <em>of data includes: school leaderships, CRC supervisors, WEO experts, teachers and student and</em><br> <em>polices, journals and literature reviews were served as secondary sources. The sampling</em><br> <em>techniques employed were purposive, stratified and simple random sampling. The sample size</em><br> <em>were 55 teachers, 8 principals, 5 Vice principals, 7 CRC Supervisors, 6 WEO experts, and 252</em><br> <em>students, totally 344 participants out of 5,433 target populations. The interview Data were</em><br> <em>gathered from principals, vice principals, CRC Supervisors and WEO experts. The</em><br> <em>Questionnaires administered to teachers and students were collected from 47 teachers and 252</em><br> <em>students with the return rate of 96.14%. Quantitative data was analyzed by descriptive and</em><br> <em>inferential statistics (frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and p-value) presented </em>in<br> <em>table and calculated using SPSS version 20.Qualitative data were analyzed through narration for</em><br> <em>the purpose of triangulation. The findings of the study proved that the respondents have a positive</em><br> <em>perception on active learning. In spite of their good perceptions, the level of their practice was</em><br> <em>low and poor. Among the major challenges affecting the effectiveness of practice of active</em><br> <em>learning were: the domination of lecture method, lack of training , attention given by schools</em><br> <em>leaderships, large class size, inadequate learning resources &amp; instructional materials, lack of</em><br> <em>administrative support , shortage of well qualified teachers and adequate finance. As a result the</em><br> <em>status of active learning approach in second cycle primary schools was found at a low level.</em><br> <em>Based on the findings, it was recommended that, </em>for <em>the successful implementation of active</em><br> <em>learning; the positive perception of teachers, school leaderships, WE and Zonal Education</em><br> <em>experts should increase. Facilitating continuous and intensive short and long-term training</em><br> <em>offered for teachers. That was on the practice and different strategies of active learning to</em><br> <em>improve and overcome the challenges observed on the implementation active learning.</em><br> <em>Educational administrative bodies adjust mechanism and financing schools, construct extra</em><br> <em>classes to solve the problem. Teachers should use verity of modern teaching method so as to</em><br> <em>minimize problems encountered and maximize the practice and the status of active learning in the</em><br> <em>study area.</em><br>