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Time to Teach - Teacher attendance and time on task

25 May 2021

What are the potential implications for policy making? Based on the above findings and a review of the literature of the South Sudanese primary education context, several policy implications are recommended: Continuing to build on the work that the Government of South Sudan and its partners is undertaking to pay public service salaries on time and to increase the allocation of public funding for. [...] The study seeks to provide critical insights into the factors at different levels of the education system that influence teacher attendance and assist the policy and programmatic work of the Ministry of General Education and Instruction (MOGEI) and UNICEF South Sudan. [...] More specifically, the objectives of the project are to: Understand the various forms of primary school teachers’ time-on-task namely, attendance in school and classroom, punctuality, teaching time in classroom, and quality of teaching, and assess their prevalence in different regions across the country, the type of schools (public/private/faith- based) and their setting (rural/urban/semi-rural);. [...] The Innocenti team sought and received research ethics approval to use the Time to Teach instruments and fieldwork protocols from the Health Media Lab (HML) and the Institutional Review Board of the Office for Human Research Protections in the U. [...] Following the training of trainers, the team leader provided training to enumerators and on 20 July 2018, proceeded to pre-test the data collection tools to assess the duration and flow of instrument administration and the respondents’ cognitive understanding of questions and key concepts.
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59
Published in
Italy

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