An Assessment on the Contributions of Tda/besoI Project in Improving the Access and Quality of Primary Education in Tigray Region
No Thumbnail Available
Date
2004-05
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the contributions of TDAIBESO I Project in
improving the access and quality of primary education in Tigray Region. Descriptive survey
method was used to address the objectives of the study. The study was conducted in 25
primary schools of eight project woredas and the subject of the study were teachers, head
teachers, SDAs, educational officials at woreda, zone and region levels, representatives of the
local community, and staff members of the project office. The sampling techniques used to
select the data sources were availability, purposive and random sampling techniques.
The instrument used to collect data from teachers, head teachers and SDAs was questionnaire.
Unstructured interview was also used to collect information that would supplement the
questionnaire from representatives of the local community, the education officials at woreda,
zone and region levels and from the members of the project office. Moreover, using a checklist,
field observations were made in the sample schools. Various documents and statistical data
found at the project office of TDAIBESO and the TREB were also consulted. Qualitative and
quantitative methods were used to analyse the data. The statistical tools used to analyse the
obtained data were percentage and weighted mean.
The results have ~uggested that TDAIBESO I Project's objectives were appropriate for
alleviating the educational problems of the region that prevailed before its intervention. As a
result of this, the project was able to mobilize the local community with the limited amount of
grant disbursed to the project schools. Accordingly, the local community had, to a considerable
extent, participated in the improvement of the school environment and in the management of
schools, which had been sustained even after the termination of the project activities.
Consequently, the enrolment of students, especially that of girls, had been increased, and the
motivation of teachers and the quality of leadership of the schools had relatively been improved.
However, the internal efficiency indicators demonstrated that there had been overcrowded
classrooms and shortage of teachers. The dropout and repetition rates also showed an
increasing rather than decreasing tendency in contrast to what had been at the beginning of the
intervention period. This signals that the internal efficiency of the project schools had been low
which might have in turn affected the quality of education. From this it could be deduced that the
objective of the project vis-a-vis the improvement of educational quality had not been fully
realized . The causes of this might have come as a result of the various problems that had been
discussed in the third chapter of this study. Thus, to alleviate the encountered problems,
possible recommendations are forwarded in the fourth chapter of this study .
Description
Keywords
Contributions of Tda/besoI Project in Improving the Access