Overview

Review: Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Teachers Quality Improvement (TQI) Program Titian Foundation

Teachers Quality Improvement Program is belong to Titian Foundation. It has been implementing in Yogyakarta. Goal of TQI program is to make schools a positive learning space where students optimize learning. Three objectives were set to reach the goal: (1) To improve headmaster leadership skills in providing support and leadership in the school based management, (2) To increase the ability of teachers to deliver active, innovative, communicative, and fun learning (PAIKEM), (3) Enable MONE to deliver training in TQI competencies.

CIRCLE Indonesia was invited to conduct a review on M&E applied in the first year of program implementation. It was on 12-13 August 2011. The objective of the review are:

  1. To provide feedback to the existing measurement tools;
  2. To provide feedback to the steps of program implementation;
  3. To provide recommendation for the more comprehensive monitoring evaluation in the second year.

Some methods used in this review is as follow:

  • Document Study (Proposal, TQI Logical Framework, TQI Work Plan, Batch 1 Evaluation Report, Batch 2 Evaluation Report, TQI Monthly Report April 2011, Registration Form Participant, Facilitator Assessment Form, Sample of Classroom Climate pre-test, Sample of Classroom Climate post test; Students’ Pretest and Post Test , Comprehension Sample of Materials, Sample of Participants 'Response, Sample of Teachers' attitude pre-test, Sample of Teachers attitude post-test, Technical Report TQI Training Year 2010/2011)
  • Brainstorming, discussions with all program staff;
  • Focused Group Discussion with the beneficiaries (teachers who accomplished the training and accompaniment and teachers who have attended training but have not been accompanied).

The result of the review was presented at the end of the meeting on 13 August 2011. As the program staff were saying, this review has provided them with new understanding on the logic of program intervention and how to conduct a systematic program monitoring and evaluation.