DOES THE EDUCATIONAL MONITORING AUTHORITY ENHANCE THE PERFORMANCE OF PUBLIC SECTOR SCHOOLS: A CASE STUDY OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA, PAKISTAN

Abstract

It is suggested in Education policy 2009 of Pakistan that an educational monitoring and inspection system should introduced in provincial and district level to make sure and to enhance the quality of education at the institutions. For this purpose the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa introduced a new educational monitoring authority (EMA). The monitoring authority is unique and it differs in its organization and mechanism. The purpose of this research is to find out the impact of educational monitoring authority on the quality of education in public sector schools.  The data is collected through multi stage cluster sampling technique from five divisions randomly by using Logistic regression models and data was analyzed with the help of STATA Software. Majority of the findings are significant statistically, like, staff professionalism and attitude of education monitoring staff has a significant impact on dependent variables, result of students, regularity and absenteeism of teaching and non-teaching staff as well as dropout rate reduction. In addition to this, recruitment of teacher by national testing service has positive significant impact on student results, while students belonging to Kohat division have significant reduction in dropout rate. Due to this, it is suggested that education monitoring authority has to be implemented properly.