DEGREE OF PREPARATION OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN ADDIS ABEBA FOR THE ETHIOPIAN SCHOOL LEAVING CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION AN EMPERICAL STUDY

Abstract

It h"s been lIIany years since secondary
schools .,ith different streaas in their
progr"1tIJ48s have been forlll8d. These streallls
were established in order to fa cilitate
different _anpover needs a t
paraprofessional l e vel . In order to seo if
the schools have kept these streU2S to a
required level, various achieve_nt tests
are given . These tests are given as
teacher-_ade tests, either as for.ative or
su_ative evaluation. This however is not
enough to ascertain t he students'
colllpletion of the secondary school
programes. The Ethiopian School Leaving
certificate examination (ESLCE) is
therefore given to serve this purpose Tho ESLCE as it has been used for many
years is given to determine if the
candidates have successfully completed the
secondary school programe and to see
who thor or not they are able to proceed to
a post-secondary one. Although these
s trea.s s upposedly prepar e students for
various car eers at different levels, they
all take ESLCE . But do they al l have
opportrmities to prepare themselves
adequately for this challenge? This paper ,
with its 1illlited scope, attempts to
investigate just that. To that end s uch
variables as tile eighth grade percentile
rank of candida tes, period allocations of
subjects Commonly offered in secondary
schools and qual ifications of teachers of
theses Subject s were used. Finally,
a ppropriate statistics was employed For
analysis .