Abstract:
The study was explored educational material and management secondary schools of kersa woreda in Jimma zone. It was concerned with educational material management. To attain the stated objective of the study, descriptive survey design was employed. Both quantitative and qualitative method (approaches) employed in this research. This method helps to obtain from sample respondents were drawn by availability sampling techniques due to their direct relation with the issue under study and hence to gain sufficient information, simple random sampling technique was also employed. Three groups of respondents participated in the study. These are school principals, teaching and nonteaching staff. Regarding this research study, 2 schools from kersa woreda in Jimma zone were selected by simple random sampling techniques. The data was collected through questionnaire, interview and personal observation. The data gathered through questionnaire, were quantitatively analyzed using SPSS percentage and frequency. Moreover, the data gathered through interview, open ended questions, and relevant document were qualitatively analyzed. Having gone through all the study found material management function were not effectively implemented to facilitate teaching learning activities participation of stakeholders in material management function process was not run adequately. There was also lack of continuous supervision in the area of status of educational material management. Based on these findings, some recommendation was forwarded capacitating teacher, school support staff and school principals through training many assist users in putting these materials in to develop positive attitude towards the managements of educational materials, school management may work closely with teachers, school support staff, PTA and sub city education experts. The school set experience sharing schedule for teachers and school support staff to learn a good lesson from best practice in educational material management factions in particular
