An Assessment Of The Status Of Population And Family Life Education In The Curriculum Of Some Selected Colleges Of Teachers Education In Ethiopia And Its Effect Upon The Knowledge Attitude And Practice Of The Students

The purpose of this study was to assess the status ofrnPop/FLE in the curriculum of Teachers Education in Ethiopia andrnto findout its effect upon the knowledge, attitude and practicernof the students.rnTo do this, two Regional Colleges of Teachers Educationrnnamely; Awassa and Gonder were randomly chosen. From the totalrnof 460 students population in the two colleges 154 samplernstudents were randomly selected. Sixteen department heads andrn5 curriculum designers were interviewed. A questionnairernconsisting of 20 items multiple choice test, 20 items attituderninventory, 12 items rating scale and one open ended questionrnwas administered for the sample students twice as a pre-andrnpost-test to see the effect of the course.The course cataloguesrnand course contents were considered as sources of supplementaryrndata .rnThen, percentagernmean, mUltiple comparison of thernmean,rnanalysis of variancern(ANOVA),rnPearson correlationrncoefficient and t-test were used to analyse the data.rn.rnThe study revealed that the students seem to have Pop/FLErnknowledge and positive attitude and practicing it at the timernof their enrolment to college. However, variation in their KAPrnlevel was found as a result of differences in College, sex,rnreligion, residential background and previous exposure tornPop/FL information. Besides positive relationship was foundrnbetween their knowledge level and attitude, and their knowledgernand practice . It was found that, there are significantrnproportions of Pop/FL related objectives and contents in eachrndepartment though they lack depth and special concern .

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