Students Dropout In Governmental Secondary Schools Of East Welloga Zone Oromia Regional State

The purpose of the study was to identify the major factors leading to dropout of students in secondary schools of East Wollega Zone and to point out solutions in plummeting dropout. Hence, in order to attain the objective of the study, descriptive survey method was employed. The study was carried out on five sample secondary schools that were selected using the simple random sampling technique. The subjects of the study include 50 dropouts, 89 homeroom teachers, and 12 school principals and 5 PSTA heads. To gather valid information on the issue interview and document analysis were used. As far as the questionnaire is concerned all of the respondents properly filled and returned all of these questionnaires. Interview was conducted to 5 heads of PSTA to extract in-depth information regarding to students drop out. Also there was document analysis as secondary data sources. Hence, the gathered data was analyzed using descriptive method (i.e. mean, and standard deviation) was used with the aid of SPSS version-20 Software. At last, the study came up with the following major findings. Data from documentary analysis indicated that the rate of dropout in secondary schools of the study area was significantly high and its trend shows increasing. The data further revealed that the dropout problem was more serious in grade nine than grade ten. The findings of the study depicted out that failure in study, lack of interest to learn, frequent absenteeism, low self conception due to previous failure in examination, low employment opportunity in the futures were the major problems among individual/personal factors of students. Similarly, low teacher attitude toward students, school distance from pupils‟ home, lack of guidance and counseling were the major problems related to school factor. Additionally, parental factors such as: parental enforcement to agricultural activities, low level of parents‟ education, low level of parent income and low attitudes in formal education were some related problems. To solve these problems the forwarded recommendations were; schools should create awareness program for all communities, provide necessary materials by involving different non government and government body in the systems, giving continuous advice and counseling students.

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