Common use of DATA COLLECTION AND EVALUATION Clause in Contracts

DATA COLLECTION AND EVALUATION. Methodology: 1. To evaluate the Ministry of Education’s processes of Standards and Evaluations, ASJ/TI, in cooperation with the Minister of Education, selected three measurement standards to evaluate: Teacher Evaluations, Evaluation of Student Academic Achievement and Days in Class. 2. ASJ/TI then met with key actors and evaluators within the Ministry of Education in order to collect documentation, analyze procedures, and offer recommendations. Teacher Performance Evaluations: Requested Documentation: Documentation Delivered Complete 46.15% Documentation Delivered Incomplete 46.15% Documentation Not Delivered 7.70% Documentation Delivered Complete 27.28% Documentation Delivered Incomplete 18.18% Documentation Not Delivered 54.54% Findings on Days of Class: Requested Documentation: Documentation Delivered Complete 0% Documentation Delivered Incomplete 0% Documentation Not Delivered 100% • ASJ-affiliate Transformemos Honduras (“Let’s Transform Honduras”) was instrumental in recording actual school days that students spent in class versus the legally-required minimum of 200 days. While Transformemos Honduras figures confirm that over the last two years, schools have met for at least 200 days (218 in 2013 and 224 in 2014), this information was not recorded or received by the Ministry of Education. o The Ministry of Education had neither protocol nor observable practice for recording students’ days in class. The average compliance and transparency score for these three selected processes is summarized in the following table. This percentage is not a qualification of the standards of Teacher or Student performance, rather a representation of the processes and transparency of their measurement. Teacher Performance Evaluations 92.30% Student Academic Achievement Evaluations 45.46% Days in Class 0% • Create and enforce a consistent method of teacher evaluations, administered through an independent entity within the Ministry of Education, and use the results as a basis for promotions. • Develop a mechanism in which everyone – authorities, parents, students, and citizens in general – has access to the results of the academic achievement evaluations. • Document days that students spend in class through the leadership of the Ministry of Education and with the oversight of civil society.