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During the last ten years, DataVision International has executed a significant number of surveys with an Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) and/or Early Grade Math Assessment (EGMA) component in Tanzania at district, regional or national wide level. DataVision International build intensive experience in conducting EGRA/EGMA to students in schools or children in communities. All data collection during these surveys were conducted either with Tangerine, SurveyCTO or with Tikiti, our in-house build android and web-based application. Therefore, DataVision International has experiences in management of EGRA/EGMA undertakings and has a portfolio of Early Grade Learning experts and data collectors for the assessment of students and teachers.

Recently Featured Projects

Room to Read (2024)

Impact Evaluation of the “Tanzania’s Girls Education Programme” (TGEP)

The TGEP aims to improve educational outcomes for girls in secondary schools across Tanzania through life skills education, mentoring, and active engagement with families and communities.

DataVision was commissioned to undertake the quantitative data collection, data entry, and preliminary data analysis of the evaluation. The primary objective of the data collection was to gather reliable and comprehensive data from Grade 7 girls across 20 schools in the districts of Handeni, Muheza, and Tanga City of the Tanga Region, Tanzania.

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USAID T-MELA (2024)

Data Collection for the Mid-term Performance Evaluation of USAID/Tanzania “Jifunze Uelewe” Activity

Jifunze Uelewe aims to enhance literacy and numeracy skills sustainably for pre-primary through Grade 4 students across targeted regions including Iringa, Morogoro, Mtwara, Ruvuma, and Zanzibar.

The mid-term evaluation strategy encompassed both quantitative and qualitative data collection methods, including Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) and group interviews, conducted across 305 schools in five regions.

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UNICEF Innocenti (2023)

Qualitative Data Collection for the Data Must Speak (DMS) – Schools inspiring change: Research on the practices and behaviours of positive deviant schools in Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar

The DMS research is a global initiative that seeks to leverage existing learning assessment and administrative education data to identify and scale specific school-level behaviours and practices that are leading some schools in the country to perform better than other schools in similar contexts and which have similar levels of resources.

DataVision conducted comprehensive interviews and facilitated focus group discussions with a variety of education stakeholders, including children, in 42 schools in Mainland and Zanzibar.

DMS Result Reports

FCDO through Cambridge Education (2023)

Baseline Survey of the “Shule Bora” Programme 

The purpose of the baseline survey was to identify and articulate the starting point for the full suite of indicators for the programme’s M&E framework.

Both qualitative and quantitative approaches were employed in 180 primary schools in nine regions in Tanzania by DataVision’s team.

Georgetown University (2022-2023)

Improve Learning Outcomes in Tanzania via Delivery Units

The objective of this research project is to understand the operationalization of the Big Results Now (BRN) delivery unit approach and its impacts in education, health and water sector in Tanzania. DataVision carries out KIIs with Government officials on national, district and school level in 21 districts.

Opportunity Int. through Unbounded Associates (2022)

Needs Assessment of non-state ECCE Providers for Education Quality Program Design in Tanzania

DataVision conducted a mixed method survey with 30 non-state ECCE providers, 90 teachers/caregivers, and 30 parents in Arusha and Dar es Salaam.

FCDO through Cambridge Education (2022)

Review of the ongoing School Information System Digitization at PO-RALG

Shule Bora programme contracted DataVision to undertake quality audit/diagnosis of the current School Information System to ensure the system operations and its deployment is value for money (VfM) venture.

Room to Read (2020-2022)

Monitoring and Evaluation Data Collection Services for Room to Read’s Literacy Program in Tanzania.

DataVision International provides data collection services for two activities (i) Data Collection for Impact Evaluation of the Literacy Program (Baseline, Program Only Assessment (POA), Endline) and (ii) Group Administered Learning Assessments (GALA) Pilot, to assess early grade children’s reading skills.

Aga Khan Foundation (2018)

Baseline Study of Elimu Bora Project

The Elimu Bora project is a pre-primary education programme for children living in the most disadvantaged and most marginalised geographies of Tanzania. Its main objective is to increase access and quality of early childhood education for marginalized boys and girls in Zanzibar and Lindi. DataVision conducted school readiness assessments, a teachers’ and parents’ survey as well as qualitative data collection with parents and education officials.

XPRIZE, UNESCO through RTI Int. (2017-2019)

Global Learning XPRIZE Baseline and End line

In support of the Global Learning XPRIZE Field Test, DataVision worked with RTI International to administer early grade reading and math assessments (EGRA/EGMA) to out-of-school children aged 7 to 10 in six districts in the Tanga region of Tanzania.

UNICEF through RTI International (2017)

Tanzania National MELQO Assessment.

DataVision undertook data collection for MELQO (Measuring Early Learning and Quality Outcomes). The assessment was conducted in 120 schools in 11 regions from Tanzania Mainland and 5 regions from Zanzibar by assessing 1200 students and their parents.

USAID through RTI Int. (2016-2021)

Monitoring and Evaluation Services for “Tusome Pamoja” Education Program

DataVision International was one of the four key implementing partners with focus in providing data for impact evaluation (Baseline, Mid line and End line) in five regions of Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar.

USAID through RTI Int. (2013-2017)

National EGRA/EGMA and SSME evaluation (Baseline, Mid line, End line)

This evaluation exercise involved a national sample of 675 primary schools across Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar and it involved 8,100 students and their respective teachers. DataVision undertook full data collection nationwide and supported data processing.