EVALUATION OF EDO BASIC EDUCATION SECTOR TRANSFORMATION (EDOBEST) PROGRAMME-PILLARS IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN BENIN METROPOLIS

The study evaluates the Edo Basic Education Sector Transformation (EdoBEST) programme-pillars in primary schools in Benin metropolis using the CIPP evaluation model. Specifically, the study evaluated the system strengthening and organisational development, teacher professional development and quality assurance, curriculum implementation and learning outcomes, community engagement and participation as well as school infrastructure and facilities as the programme- pillars. To carry out this study, fifteen research questions were raised, research question fifteen was hypothesized and tested at 0.05 alpha level. This study adopted a survey research design. The study’s population was 2,079 teachers and 10,285 learners. A sample size of 335 teachers and 385 primary five pupils were selected using random sampling techniques and the proportionate by size method. Teachers Questionnaire, a checklist, an observational schedule and a primary five Mathematics achievement test were the instrument used for data collection. The questionnaire, checklist and the observational schedule were subjected to content and face validity while the Mathematics achievement test is a standardized test from UBEC which was presumed to have undergone all the processes of validation. The reliability of the teacher’s questionnaire was established using the Cronbach alpha method to obtain a reliability coefficient of 0.81 while the reliability of Mathematics achievement test was reestablished using test-retest method to obtain a coefficient of 0.84. The values showed that the instruments were reliable. The data collected were analyzed using frequency counts, percentage, mean and standard deviation to answer research questions 1-14 while the independence sample t- test was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance