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Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan - Ri Bhoi District |
| A Programme for Universal Elementary Education |
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MONITORING OF PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION 4.1 COMMUNITY BASED MONITORING, EMIS, RESEARCH AND EVALUATION The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan will have a community-based monitoring system. The Educational Management Information System (EMIS) will incorporate provision for correlation of school level data with community-based information from micro planning and surveys. Besides this, every school will have a notice board showing all the grants received by the school and the details thereof. All reports sent to the Block and the District level with regard to enrolment, attendance, incentive, etc. shall be displayed on the school notice board. Reporting formats will be simplified so that the output is demystified and anyone can understand the data. A school would be required to display the information it sends up so that attendance and performance of pupils is public knowledge. The EMIS shall form the basis of the periodic reporting system. Besides this, trainers will act as classroom process observers to record changes in classroom practices. Periodic monitoring teams will make random visits to selected schools and these will be discussed at various levels. The basic principle in monitoring will be its community ownership and periodic quality checks by external teams – external to the activity but internal to the system. To encourage independent feedback on programme implementation, research and resource institutions with proven excellence will be involved in monitoring at all stages. The State Implementation Societies (SIS) will also undertake intensive monitoring. Representatives of the National Mission for UEE and National level institutions like NCTE, NIEPA, and NCERT will also undertake periodic monitoring and provide resource support to the SIS to strengthen appraisal and monitoring systems. Efforts to associate autonomous institutions willing to take up state specific responsibilities for research and evaluation will also be made. Many independent institutions would also be associated in developing effective tools for conducting achievement tests, monitoring quality aspects of programme implementation, evaluation and research studies. A total provision of up to Rs. 1500 per school per year has been made for community-based monitoring, research, evaluation, etc. Rs. 100 per school will be available at the National level. The State will decide on the division of resources at various levels, from the State to the school from the balance Rs. 1400 per school. The funds for monitoring will be used for carrying out the following activities:
Besides community based monitoring, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan will encourage independent research and supervision by autonomous research institutions. Institutions of proven excellence have been requested to take up State specific responsibilities. The focus in partnership with institutions will also be on developing capacities through the interaction in SCERTs/SIEMATs/DIETs to carry out research and evaluation tasks. Faculty of Education in Universities, Departments would also be requested to participate in such activities under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. The Regional Institutes of Education (RIE) of NCERT will also be associated in these tasks. Effective community based-monitoring requires demystification of processes. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan will make efforts to develop partnership between communities and research institutions in order to improve the quality of monitoring and research. Since quality is a major concern under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, its monitoring will be a priority. Monitoring of quality will require an understanding of processes of programme implementation. Process and quality indicators would have to be developed as per felt needs in order to track the quality of programme implementation. Such efforts would require partnership with institutions, PRIs, School Committees, etc. Training and orientation programmes to develop appropriate monitoring formats, qualitative monitoring through process documentation, case studies to understand issues comprehensively, will be required. The monitoring system under SSA will be multi pronged so that a constant strive for quality is maintained. The system of financial monitoring would also be important in developing demystified community based approaches that allow for social audit. All financial monitoring has to work within a system of social monitoring with full transparency. Joint training programmes for auditors, community leaders, teachers, etc. to understand and appreciate the context of universal elementary education would be made under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. NCERT will undertake base line assessment of learning achievements at primary level in the Non-DPEP States and at upper primary level in all states in order to provide a base line for the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. These assessments must also take a larger view of the assessment process rather than simply a one-time assessment of achievements. Efforts to develop context specific item pools for competency testing must also be simultaneously made. MONITORING OF PROGRAMME
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