Assessing the Effects of Higher Diploma Program (HDP) Training on the Teaching Learning process in Assossa University

Abstract

This study was targeted on assessing the effects of HDP training on the teaching learning process. The objectives of the study were: To evaluate the attitude of teachers to wards learner oriented teaching learning method ; To assess the extent to which  assessment for learning  was being applied in classroom, and examine   that how many instructors were  reflective in teaching learning process. The research design of this study was surveying type in which data collected from all colleges of the university. The experimental, control and extraneous population were already exited in the university by default. Thus, HDP graduated teachers were considered as experimental group, while non HDP graduated teachers were taken as control group. Teachers with educational /pedagogical background / were considered as extraneous variable because their background could have potential effect on the quality of the data so that they were excluded from the sample.  Students were also part of the study. To collect data, questionnaire, interview and classroom observations were used. Accordingly, 136 questionnaires collected and analyzed, six interviews and ten classroom observations were made. The finding indicates the shallow impact of HDP training on teaching learning process due to factors contributed by different entities. Thus, it is recommended that rigorous remedial action is need to be taken by the university.

Keywords: HDP, Impact, Teaching, and Learning