Principals Attitude Towards One-to-five Students Group Formation Teaching Strategy The Case Of Selected Primary Schools In Jarso Woreda Of Western Wollega Zone

The purpose of this study was to identify principals’ attitude towards one- to-five student group formation teaching strategy and to assess the reason why principals have negative attitude towards this strategy in primary schools. To realize this purpose four basic questions related to principal’ attitude towards one-to-five grouping strategy, reasons for having posetive or negative attitude towards one-to-five grouping strategy and the challenges related existing attitude of principals were raised. In order to meet this purpose survey research design was employed. The study used qualitative and quantitative approaches. The study randomly selected 16 schools from 23 primary schools found in Jarso Woreda of Western Wollega zone. By random sampling technique, 39 primary school were selected. Out of the total principals in these schools, 28 were selected or used as sources of quantitative data while 6 were selected for qualitative part of the study. The researcher used questionnaire and interview to gather primary data from school principals. In the first phase of the quantitative part, 28 principals participated by filling the questionnaire. The collected quantitative data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics. The qualitative data (data from interview) were described and narrated to support the quantitative data. The finding of this study revealed that principals have negative attitude towards one-to-five student group formation strategy and also revealed that there is a positive relation between qualification and their attitude. The secondary data also revealed that one-to- five grouping strategy was not welcomed by the principals as most of them previewed it as political motive to silence them and their students than its advantage in enabling students learn from one another. Based on this, it was concluded that the one-to-five groping strategy was not implemented as intended. In line with finding, it is recommended that awareness creation is so important for school leadership so that they make the efforts to use appropriate grouping strategies for the facilitation of group learning among students in their respective schools.

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