Investigating school administrators’ and education standards officers’ monitoring and evaluation of teacher performance in Nyimba district of Zambia.
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Investigating school administrators’ and education standards officers’ monitoring and evaluation of teacher performance in Nyimba district of Zambia.
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Creator
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Daka, Harrison
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Date
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2022-09-30T09:23:27Z
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Date Available
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2022-09-30T09:23:27Z
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Date Issued
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2021
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This study aimed at establishing whether there were any particular challenges that
faced school administrators and Education Standards Officers (ESOs) in Nyimba
district in their Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) of selected secondary school
teachers’ performance. The objection of the study was to investigate the major
challenges to monitoring and evaluation faced by school administrators and Education
Standards Officers, if any. This study was conducted within the framework of mixed
methodology using an embedded mixed design, the study collected data from 68
participants drawn from six secondary schools and the District Education Board Office
in Nyimba. The data were collected using questionnaires and interviews. The findings
were that most teachers were faced with the challenges of inadequate teaching and
learning materials at their schools, minimal feedback by ESOs, inadequate staffing of
ESOs and minimal motivation of teachers. Moreover, some teachers feared to meet
standards officers due to inadequate preparation. On the other hand, the district was
also faced with inconsistent funding from the government and therefore making timely
inspections in distant schools almost impossible. My recommendations for addressing
the challenges that emerged from the findings included continuous professional
trainings where Education Standards Officers and teachers in Zambia are inducted on
professional ethics, shared vision, timely school visits by standards officers, the
incorporation of ICTs into monitoring and evaluation, awarding of hard working
teachers, recruitment of additional standards officers and the undertaking of cluster
monitoring and evaluation teachers in schools.
Keywords: Challenges, evaluation, monitoring, shared vision, teacher performance
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