Effectiveness Of Opras In Improving Teachers Performance In Public Secondary Schools: A Case Study Of Kisarawe District Tanzania

ABSTACT

The main focus of the study was to assess whether the Open Performance Review

and Appraisal System yields the expected results especially on improving teacher’s

performance at public secondary schools.

The study used cross sectional research design and in the course of collecting the

required data the researcher used quantitative approach. Three instruments used to

collect data namely: questionnaire, interview and document review. A sample of 98

respondents who were obtained through purposive sampling and simple random

sampling techniques was involved in this study. Collected data were analyzed by

using quantitative and qualitative method then the results were presented and

summarized in table by using frequency and percentages.

Findings confirm there were inadequate or lack of awareness, personal characters,

lack of integrity, short of trust, lack of transparency, deficiency in a rule of law, and

deplorable presence of corruption. Also the pitiful management of conducting the

system and poor practice of using OPRAS seemingly and apparently becomes

persistently detrimental problems associated with the OPRAS received by teachers

in public secondary schools according to the study. In respect of findings of the

study, provided was the specific recommendation in improving teachers’

performance in public secondary schools.

Thus, the study recommends that, OPRAS should be used by supervisors or

employers more creative in doing it openly, free, rightly and justice so as to avoid

poor performance of the employees and the implementations of OPRAS should be

realistic and compatible with the real situation of the employees and employers