Satisfaction and Status. Exploring Satellite Television Program in Ethiopia Five Secondary Schools

Academic Paper from the year 2018 in the subject Psychology - Media Psychology, , language: English, abstract: The main purpose of this mixed method study; in titled Satisfaction and Status: Exploring Satellite Television Program in Ethiopia Five Secondary Schools; is to explore the satisfaction of Students, Teachers and Principals on satellite TV educational program and also look the status, perception as well as factors affecting satellite program teaching learning process and find solutions with CIPP (Content, Input, Process, and Product) evaluation scale and open questions. participants in Northern Ethiopia particularly from Debark, Dabat, Wogera and Denbiya woredas are enrolled in this study. This research is in significance of utilization of ICT media technology can be a learning paradigm in the secondary level schools to enhance the students' knowledge and skills as well. The study is assumed relevance to improve the system of educational satellite TV broadcasting implementation in providing the feedbacks for the strengths and weakness of the program to the relevant stakeholders so that they can take measures to alleviate the identified challenges. The findings may create conducive environment for the teaching and learning process by satellite plasma television. The study will offer invaluable information to the school's administration as well as to policy makers in education as to the nature of the contribution of ICT to the teaching-learning process. This goal can be achieved through the proper utilization of ICT media technology that can enhance the motivation and achievement of the students. In addition to these the study may be basis for another researcher to conduct similar study.

The author Getnet Eshetu having a degree in Biology and master's in Educational Psychology served for the Gondar Education Media Center for the past 20 years up to the present. He spends his time in the areas of management, training and research as well as designing and implementing media projects on different social and development issues. He is the author of two researches; one is 'Involving Children for Hand Washing Behavior Change: Repeated Message Delivery to Foster Action'; the other is 'Stories of Change from Open Diaries: The Joint Effects of Radio Messaging and Group Discussions to Fight Child Marriage'; both have been published by Anchor Academic Publishing in 2013 and 2014 respectively.