TZ Education Program for Results

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The objective of the Big Results Now in Education Program (BRNEd) Project is to improve education quality in Tanzanian primary and secondary schools. Progress towards the achievement of project development objective, or PDO will be measured through the following indicators: (i) national average performance of grade two students in reading (measured by Kiswahili oral reading fluency); (ii) national average performance of grade two students in numeracy (measured by competency in level one subtraction); (iii) percentage of teachers found in classrooms during unannounced visit in primary and secondary schools; and (iv) percentage of teachers with minimum knowledge in Mathematics and Languages in primary schools. Improvements in student performance on Primary School Leaving Examination, or PSLE and Certificate of Secondary Education Examination, or CSEE examinations will be a higher order objective of the program. These are key results indicators of the overall BRNEd program but are considered unsuitable for inclusion as PDO indicators due to concerns around attribution, realism, and volatility. They will, however, be tracked closely throughout the life of the program and technical assistance will be directed towards development of National Assessment Framework which will lead to strengthening the test items, grading policy, data decomposition within the PSLE and CSEE assessment systems.