Educational communications development

Evaluation, prepared by the project officer, covers the period 6/9-4/81. All outputs should be achieved; some have been met or vastly exceeded. Radio/TV programs (353 hrs) and 130 slide/sound sequences have been prepared for community education. In the Open Junior High School subproject, five schools serving 1,466 students are participating; and 131 filmstrips, 348 printed modules, and 54 radio broadcast hours have been produced, along with 191 items for the 30 instructional kits planned. All 10 pilot children"s programs have been produced, and studies of children"s television viewing habits and radio teacher training have been completed. Some 1,231 media components have been prepared for the Primary Teacher Training subproject, outputs of which will be finalized later. The University of Southern California is conducting a 1-month local course and a U.S. summer session for 18 Ph.D. and 8 M.A. students. Other outputs include creation of all four media departments; media utilization training for 494 PTKPK personnel; production of 6,400 ft of film and five films for PTKPK; and U.S. study tours for seven PTKPK personnel. The GOI has not yet granted a waiver allowing the director and deputy of the project"s implementation unit (IU) to be paid the higher salaries their jobs warrant. If the problem is not resolved soon, the IU will be disbanded and a long-term advisor hired to coordinate the project. The Acadamy for Educational Development, the contractor, judges a subcontractor incapable of procuring media equipment and will seek other means for this task. Success to date indicates target underestimation. Future stress should be laid on improving PTPKT"s management process and product quality and on setting up a mechanism facilitating these ends. Lessons learned include the need for an early decision on the nature and location of a project"s training component. The logframe"s first measure of goal achievement should read: "Increased % of rural enrollment at primary and junior high school levels."