Effective teaching is the collaborative effort of both teachers and students. Teachers are expected to engage their students in teaching and learning process so as to make them active in the classroom. Thus, using peer assessment gives opportunity to a teacher to engage students in learning so that they take responsibility for their own learning. Accordingly, the main aim of this study was to investigate the effect of peer-assessment on students’ writing proficiency. In order to achieve this objective, the research question related to whether the use of peer-assessment can bring a change on the students’ writing proficiency was set. The study was quasi-experiment in design. It focused on 1st year Banking and Finance students of Jimma University. Two groups were randomly selected from the four groups and were again randomly assigned as treatment group and control group. Each group contained 30 students. In order to collect data from the students, paragraph writing test was used at the end of the intervention. The data collected were quantitative, and they were analyzed using inferential statistics called independent sample T-test. The result of the analysis showed that the students in the treatment group improved their writing proficiency than the students in control group. This indicates that the use of peer-assessment as intervention showed a significant effect on the students’ writing proficiency (t (58) = 3.537, p = 0.001, "Sig. (2-tailed)"). Therefore, it is possible to recommend that the use of peer-assessment in addition to teacher assessment is better than using teacher assessment alone so as to improve writing skills.

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The word "prescription", from "pre-" ("before") and "script" ("writing, written"), refers to the fact that the prescription is an order that must be written down before a drug can be dispensed. Prescription is a written order by the prescriber to the dispenser on how the drug should be dispensed. It serves as a means of communication among the prescriber, dispenser and drug consumer pertaining to treatment. That is why doctors are legally obliged to write prescription clearly. However, most of the time prescriptions are found to be unclear. Accordingly, the main objective of this survey study was to investigate the factors that affect proper prescription writing in Jimma University specialized hospital. In order to achieve the main objective, four specific objectives related to knowledge and perception on importance of good prescription and consequences of sloppy prescription writing, the practice of good prescription writing and other factors that affect the proper prescription writing were formulated. One hundred (25%) of the physicians and 50(100%) of the pharmacists were included in the survey. In order to select sample physicians, convenience sampling technique was employed. In order to collect data from the sample, two instruments namely questionnaire and document analysis were used. The collected data were analyzed using percentage and mean value. The result of the survey showed that most of the physicians have knowledge on the importance of clear prescription writing and they positively perceived that sloppy prescription writing has negative impact on both pharmacists and patients. Nevertheless, the magnitude of writing clear prescription was low because 54.8% of the sample prescriptions were proved to be illegible. Moreover, 70% of the pharmacists also reported that physicians write clear prescription only some times. The major factors that affect the proper prescription writing, according to the physicians, are shortage of time (69%), difficulty of some medicine names to spell (80%) and lack of feedback from pharmacists (52%) on their (physicians') unclear prescription writing. Therefore, the university in collaboration with the hospital administrative bodies, ministry of health and other concerned bodies should work to make the physicians responsible and work cooperatively with pharmacists to alleviate the problem because illegible prescription may pose a medical threat to the treatment of a patient.