Factors affecting the utilization of visual instructional materials in misrak and selam TVET colleges

ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES Factors Affecting the Utilization of Visual Instructional Materials in Misrak and Selam TVET Colleges of Addis Ababa By Dawit Temamo

ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY

SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES

Factors Affecting the Utilization of Visual Instructional Materials in Misrak and Selam TVET Colleges of Addis Ababa

By Dawit Temamo

July 2007 Addis Ababa

Acknowledgement

My first Acknowledgement must go to the almighty God that helped me in all my ways and in all the process of my activities

My deepest and hem"! felt gratitude goes to my advisor, Dr Dessu Wirtu for his insightful

comments, patience and constant follow up of the progress of the study Without his

support, this thesis would not have been accomplished successfully

Last but not least, I would like to thank my family, parents, all my friends and the prayer

groups for their encouragement and unreserved support

Thank you, all!!!

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Abstract

Thi s study attempted to find out th e current tr ends in the utilization of visual instructional materials in government and private TVET colleges in Addis Ababa city administration

some qualitative approaches were used to co llect data The main method of data

collection tools was two sets of questionnaires one for instructors and the other for trainees In addition to this interview and focus group discussion and observation using a

checklist were used to suppo rt data obtained through the questionnaires Using simple

random sampling technique th e two colleges were selected out of five go v ernment and

"six private" colleges that have incorporated several fields related to the study A total of

287 respondents out of which 48 instru cto rs and 239 trainees were used as a sample populatioll out of 92 instructors and 902 trainees In addition to this J 3 interview and

focus group discussion respondents were also includ ed in the study as a source of data Main problems related to the study are: absence of pedagogical ce nt e r poor facilities of

library and the department shops support and motivation provided by the deans to their respective instructors and train ees lack of willingness of some instructors to participate

in creating visual illstru c tianal materials inadequate training programs employed budget constraints and sup port of community outs id e the colleges In addition to the above the utilization of visual instructional materials is affected by many problems to

carry out the TVET programs efficiently Thu s different measures should be taken to

overcome the problems related to utilization of visual instructional materials