Implementation of management by objective through Open Performance Review and Appraisal System for teachers in Tanzania

dc.contributor.authorMatete, Rose Ephraim
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-24T09:05:33Z
dc.date.available2020-08-24T09:05:33Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionFull-Text Article. Also available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijels.v.4n.3p.24en_US
dc.description.abstractManagement by Objective through Open Performance Review and Appraisal System (OPRAS) was introduced in Tanzania for evaluation of public servants work performance in 2004. The aim of this study was to investigate how teachers perceive the implementation of OPRAS as a mechanism of assessing their work performance and making them accountable for their teaching. The study was mainly qualitative with some aspects of quantitative data. It involved 108 informants, where 90 were the primary school classroom teachers, 10 headteachers, 6 school committee members and 2 district educational officials. The data were collected through questionnaires, interviews, and focus group discussion. While some teachers think if OPRAS contract could well be worked out it to improve the performance, there are those teachers who think OPRAS is impractical and unrealistic to the Tanzanian context where pupils are congested in classrooms with shortage of desks. During the school visit in both Kinondoni Dar es Salaam and Mbeya City findings indicated that OPRAS had been abandoned as it created hostility between headteachers and teachers. Teachers complained of the expenses involved in duplicating the copies and the time consumed for discussion. I argue in this paper that although evaluation of teachers is important, the adoption of the type of assessment for their work performance has to be considered because of the nature of the field and the complications involved in dealing with human mind. Teaching is a labour-intensive process. Teachers cannot, by means of their teaching, determine how many pupils will pass a given exam and how well they will do in their exams under the OPRAS requirements.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMatete, R. E. (2016). Implementation of management by objective through Open Performance Review and Appraisal System for teachers in Tanzania. International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 4(3), 24-33.en_US
dc.identifier.other10.7575/aiac.ijels.v.4n.3p.24
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/2388
dc.publisherAustralian International Academic Centreen_US
dc.subjectOpen Performance Review and Appraisal Systemen_US
dc.subjectOPRASen_US
dc.subjectWork performanceen_US
dc.subjectWork performance evaluationen_US
dc.subjectTeachersen_US
dc.subjectTeachers work performanceen_US
dc.subjectOPRAS implementationen_US
dc.subjectManagement by Objectivesen_US
dc.subjectMBOen_US
dc.titleImplementation of management by objective through Open Performance Review and Appraisal System for teachers in Tanzaniaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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