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Monitoring and evaluation. Policy makers assign responsibility for assessing MTB MLE students’ progress as well as programme components such as pre-service and in-service training and materials. They give specific attention to these points:
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Supervisors make regular visits to each MTB MLE classroom and provide written documentation of their observations.
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Testing for each subject each year is in the language that teachers use for instruction in that subject.
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Each component of the MTB MLE programme( the circle diagram in p. 16) is evaluated during and at the end of the pilot phase and as the programme expands. 6
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People responsible for implementation use programme evaluation results to make necessary adjustments to the programme as needed, and specifically at the end of the pilot and at each stage of expansion.
Supportive partnerships. Policy makers foster an atmosphere of cooperation among all supporting agencies— government, NGOs, universities and others— in working with local communities to develop and sustain strong programmes.
6 An example is UNICEF’ s end-of-pilot evaluation of the MTB BE pilot project in Viet Nam. See http:// www. unicef. org / evaldatabase / index _ 90456. html
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