Improving Basic Education through integrating Information and Communication Technology (ICT) into Teacher Education is a component of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für International Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Basic Education Programme (BEP). As part of this component, Gesellschaft fuer Organisation, Planung und Ausbildung (GOPA) Worldwide Consultants GmbH, with funding from GIZ, commissioned IPOR to undertake an evaluation of improvements in ICT knowledge and application by lecturers and students at Teacher Training Colleges (TTCs) and Teaching Practice Schools (TPSs).

The evaluation comprised five separate tasks namely:

1. Conducting Baseline and Endline phone surveys, data analyses and reporting on ICT use by student teachers from 8 TTCs
2. Baseline and Endline survey data analysis and reporting on ICT knowledge improvement of lecturers from 8 TTCs
3. Baseline and Endline survey data analysis and reporting on ICT knowledge improvement of TPS lecturers
4. Conducting a phone survey, data analysis and reporting on the competence level of student teachers from 8 TTCs with regard to ICT, and on which challenges to integrate ICT into teaching and learning were considered particularly relevant by the student teachers, both in the context of their training at the TTCs and in their future job at the TPSs

The evaluation tasks commenced in September 2020 and were concluded in August 2022. Phone Survey respondents comprised Teachers Training Colleges (TTC) students from Blantyre, Chiradzulu, Karonga, Kasungu, Lilongwe, Machinga, Phalombe, and St Joseph TTCs. Data was also collected from TTC and TPS lecturers who voluntarily filled a questionnaire at the beginning and end of a training course on Integrating Technology in Teaching and Learning (ITTL). IPOR’s role on the evaluation comprised revision and translation of questionnaires; recruitment and training of enumerators; data collection, cleaning and analysis; and report writing.