College of education and behavorial study departement of educational planning and management assessing the practice of diversity management in

CHAPTER THREE 
 
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 
3.1. The Research approach and Design 
This part focuses on the research design of the study. It highlights the research method, research 
design, target population, samples and sampling procedures, research instruments, data collection 
techniques and data analysis.
 
3.2 Research Design 
The design of this study is Descriptive study. The reason was many problems in education are 
best investigated by means of this method and it could enable the researcher to find out the 
practices of diversity management in government secondary schools in students learning process.
The main purpose of this study was assessing the practices of diversity management in the case 
of Fitche Town secondary schools, which is found in North Shewa, Oromia regional state, 
Ethiopia. To, achieve this purpose, concurrent mixed research design was used as the method of 
the study. One of the most advantageous characteristics of conducting mixed methods research is 
the possibility of triangulation, I.e., the use of several means (methods, data sources and 
researchers) to examine the same phenomenon. Triangulation allows one to identify aspects of 
phenomenon more accurately by approaching it from different advantage points using different 
methods and techniques. In this method, quantitative and qualitative approaches were used to 
conduct statistical and interview data for the study. Because the study‘s aim is to evaluate how 
the leaders are practicing diversity management in government secondary schools in students 
learning process. Hence, based on the argument that triangulation is important in undertaking a 
diversified types of data, it was found convincing to employ concurrent triangulation method 
predominated by quantitative and qualitative approaches (Cresswell, 2002). To data, gathering 
instruments were used to collect relevant data for the study. These were: questionnaire, interview 
and unstructured observation were the data gathering instruments used in the study. It tried to 
answer three main research questions that been presented in the research questions section. This 
requires the researcher to analyze, interact, conduct interviews and observe the study participants 

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in their schools. In this study, the researcher collects data by direct interaction with selected 
individuals in their settings.