Utilization of Monitoring and Evaluation and Performance of Digital Education Technology Project in Malawi

Abstract

Malawi's primary education is faced with challenges as a result of free primary education that was introduced in 1994. Enrolment rate is high making it difficult for teaching and learning to be executed. The Digital Education Technology (DET) Project was therefore introduced so as to enhance literacy and numeracy performance of standard one and two learners. Despite this intervention challenges in the sector are still persisting yet the project has monitoring and evaluation component. This paper investigated the extent to which monitoring and evaluation results influenced the performance of the DET project. The study adopted descriptive cross sectional correlational survey design where a questionnaire and interview guide were used as data collection tools from the personnel that participated in the implementation and monitoring and evaluation of the DET project. With r=0.489, r²=0.239 and F(1,183)=57.266 at p=0.001<0.05, the null hypothesis was rejected and concluded that utilization of Monitoring and Evaluation Results has a significant positive influence on the performance of DET project in Malawi.