The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Federal TVET Institute

Further Training Center

SKILL GAP ANALYSES QUESTIONNAIRE

INTRODUCTION

Why do we need teacher skill gap needs assessment?

Because training is a means to ensure that different stakeholders/ officials/trainers have the knowledge and right
skills to be able to do their work effectively and competently. Training may be needed when there is a gap between
the desired performance, and the current performance, and the reason for that gap is lack of skill or knowledge.
Training may only be able to resolve part of the problem. Thus we need to analyze the problem and find out whether
training will be able to resolve it. If training is necessary, we also need to define the objective of the training and how
it will help the staff member(s) become more effective.

Teachers in many cases are in need of specific feedback - which will provide them insights on where, what and how to improve
their own abilities in order to function with effectiveness. These are needed because –

 Teachers have a number of misconceptions that they pass on to students - According to Howard Gardner, it is
common for adults to have a large number of misconceptions in subjects apart from their own specialization. Teachers,
like other adults, would be unaware of their own misconceptions.

 Inappropriate teaching methods lead to more misconceptions - Halim and Meerah (2002) suggest that being aware of
misconceptions alone does not guarantee that teachers will consider or use that awareness in their teaching.

 Certain teacher attitudes also influence teacher effectiveness. For example, a teacher may believe that different
students have different abilities to learn, based on gender or other socio-economic or cultural divides. This in turn
affects the time they invest in students to mentor and guide them to better learning.

 Teacher assessments provide evidence on the extent to which a teacher misconception could be prevalent among the
teacher population and hence are a minefield for identification of training needs.
Therefore, it is with these and other premises that trainers’ skill gap analysis are to be carried out in our institute. The
Federal TVET Institute (Further Training Center) in collaboration with the GIZ wants to deliver teacher focused
trainings depending on the result of the skill gap needs analyses.

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Dear respondent

This questionnaire forms part of our skill gap analyses entitled: Identifying Ethiopian TI trainers’ skill gap analyses at
the Federal TVET Institute. This skill gap analysis aims to identify the priority competences and learning needs of the
training group. You are invited to assess your competency levels. This information will be used to plan training and
develop learning programs.

Therefore, you have been identified as one of the potential participants who could provide pertinent information to
help us carry out this project successfully because of your knowledge of the issues in the study. Therefore, we
request you to complete this questionnaire as candidly as possible. Kindly be informed that your participation in this
study is voluntary. We wish to assure you that the information you provide in the questionnaire will be confidential
since your identity is not required. It will take you only about 20 minutes to complete this questionnaire.

Instructions:
 For those questions where choices are given, please circle/ tick your preferences
 For questions where blank spaces are given, write your responses to each questions

We appreciate your contributions in advance!

We are striving to make our institute trainers well aware, informed, trained, skilled and
professionally competent.

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Part I: Demographic Information
1. Name of your department:______________________________________

2. Gender:_______

Male = (1); Female= (2)

3. Age:_________

Below 20 years = (1) 20-25 years = (2) 26-30 years= (3);

31 – 35 years= (4) 36-40 years= (5) Above 40 years= (6);

4. Qualification:__________

Diploma = (1); BA/BSC= (2); MA/MSC = (3); PhD = (4); Other = (5);
Specify ______________________

5. Experiences (present year included):________________

Below 5 years = (1); 5-10 years = (2); 11-15 years= (3);

16-20 years= (4); 21-25 years= (5); Above 25 years= (6);

6. Nationality:___________________

Ethiopian = (1); Expat = (2)

7. Subject/subjects you are teaching in ______________________________________

Part II: Skill gap related issues

Please rate your degree of knowledge/skill in each of the competencies below using a scale of 1-5 or N/A and the
free text space to provide additional comments.
1 = No knowledge/skill (NKS)
2 = A little knowledge/skill but considerable development required (LKS)
3 = Some knowledge/skill but development required (SKS)
4 = Good level of knowledge/skill displayed, with a little development required (GKS)
5 = Fully knowledgeable/skilled – no/very little development required (FKS)
6 = This competency is not applicable to my job (NA)

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NB: 1 = NKS, 2 = LKS, 3 =r SKS, 4 = GKS, 5 = FKS, and 6 = NA.

Skills/training needs NKS LKS SKS GKS FKS NA

Based on Database Administration( level 3 and 4) 1

1 Gather Data to Identify Business Requirements
2 Identify Physical Database Requirements
Design a Database , Mode data object and
3 Design Program Logic 2
Basic and advanced Structured Query
4 Language 1
5 Design Program Logic
6 Test Physical Database Implementation
7 Database Backup and Recovery
8 Monitor and Support Data Conversion
Object-Oriented Programming Language
9 Skills for Database
Determine Suitability of Database
10 Functionality and Scalability
11 Perform Database System Test
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12 Monitor and Administer Database

Identify and Resolve Database Performance
13 Problems

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 N.B: if you have any additional training please list down here

Part III: Open ended questions

1. Which interests or talents would you like to develop?
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2. What are your strengths?
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3. What areas would you like to improve?
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3.1. Which 3 or 4 areas do you feel you need to develop most?
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4. What kind of other trainings do you want?

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5. Please make any comments about the form or content of the questionnaire that will
enable us to improve it in future.
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