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Mahammoda, Salih Ahmed
- Factors Affecting the Quality of Undergraduate Research Work in Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia
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1 Samara University, ET
Source
International Journal of Innovative Research and Development, Vol 5, No 12 (2016), Pagination: 23-27Abstract
The main objectives of this study were to describe and explain factors affecting the quality of undergraduate research work in Bahir Dar University and challenges teachers face in research supervision of their students, taking faculty of education and behavioral science as target area with three teachers and five graduated individuals of 2005E.C. for samples from school psychology department. To achieve this objective, descriptive research design under qualitative approach was used with the aforementioned samples, and the required data was obtained through in-depth and semi-structure interviews as well as senior essays of the graduates reviewed. The analysis was done by triangulating results of these three data. The analysis revealed that academic (incompletion of research course, lack of advisors commitment, students’ lack of analytical skills, language skills and goals in learning), psychological (students’ lack of confidence as well as lack of motivation in research course and research topic). social and personal, (lack of relationship between students, teachers and colleagues and lack of time management skills and interest in research, lack of financial capacity of students, Lack of respondents’ willingness to fill research instruments). Institutionally (Lack of open evaluation system for research, scarcity of reference materials, absence of facilitated research environment, pairing students on a single topic and the service delivery system of library) found to be factors affecting the quality of undergraduate students’ research work. Students’ inability to do research, meaningless academic work of students, lack of facilitative research environment, lack of incentives for teachers, Lack of open evaluation system for research and scarcity of reference materials were found to be challenges of teachers in research supervision. Hence, it concluded that academic, psychological, institutional, social and personal factors affecting quality of students’ research and supervisors are facing multifaceted challenges, which arise from students work and institutional working system.