By Mabinty M. Kamara
A two-week-long survey begins tomorrow to collect data to measure progress made by pupils in 340 selected schools across the country.
Called the Sierra Leone Innovation challenge End Line Survey, and implemented by Statistics Sierra Leone, the exercise will last for two weeks.
The Directorate of Science and Technology (DSTI) is the architect of the project. Speaking at the training of 100 enumerators and supervisors hired for the survey, the Communication Lead at DSTI, Mariama Mansaray-Rogers explained the rationale behind the survey, noting that it was to collect data from selected schools from Classes 1 to 6.
In his keynote address at the weeklong training held at their AJ Momoh Street office in Freetown, the Deputy Statistician General, Andrew Bob Johnny, said a baseline survey had been done a year ago.
He commended enumerators for the good work they had been doing in data collection, noting that many among them had vast experience from previous surveys conducted. He admonished them to use the knowledge they had acquired to collect the required data, urging them to be very attentive during the training as a competence-based screening exercise would be conducted at the end of the sessions to select the trainees best suited to work as supervisors and those fit for enumerators.
The Operations and Research Manager at DSTI, Benjamin Davies took the participants through a presentation on the software they would use for the survey.
According to the communications Director of Statistics Sierra Leone, they will be using the Aser Metrics software to administer the test to the pupils while the ODK software will be utilized for the data collection and later store the information on the ona.io platform for easy access.
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