An Assessment of School Educational Material Resources Management and Utilization in Jimma Zone Secondary Schools.

Abstract

The main objective of this study was to assess school material resources management and utilization in Jimma Zone Secondary Schools. In order to meet the objective of the study, descriptive research design was employed, because it helps the researcher to describe the existing conditions and make inference related to this study. Thus, this study was conducted through a mixed research method because such method ignores the weakness of studying the problem through either quantitative or qualitative method alone, and provides more comprehensive and convenient evidence for the study. The procedure of this study was carried out through concurrent triangulation mixed method. The site of the population for this study was limited to Jimma zone woreda secondary schools, Shabe Sombo woreda ,Seka ,Dedo ,woreda , Kersa woreda , and Mancho woreda . As the finding of this study revealed that , the major problems that found challenge for material management system are ; lack of uniformity of educational material resources management, low awareness about material management functions and there integrated relation between each activities. Moreover lack of continuous supervision and controlling system from outside and inside the schools were infective .The researcher recommended that the school communities has to give due attention for the utilization of school material resources , the committee has to assigned based on the experience they have and recruited on their knowledge of purchasing of school education resource.