PRETESTING UWEZO QUESTIONNAIRES

Uganda National NGO forum in partnership with PAC-Uganda conducted Uwezo pretesting of the questionnaires for 2012 Uwezo assessment. The pretesting was targeting the children between 6-16years that is to say children from primary two up to primary seven. The test was basic primary two work and this included reading short English stories, identifying alphabetical letters, simple maths and reading the local language (Ateso). The main reason for pretesting was to develop the national standard questionnaires for Uwezo assessment for the year 2012.The first pretesting was conducted in Ochero village in Asuret sub county Soroti district and the second was done in Kengere ward in Soroti municipality.This was done in orders to evaluate the level of the questionnaire whether it favors both rural and urban schools.Uwezo is being conducted in three countries which include Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. In Uganda, Uwezo assessment covers 80 districts per year. The assessment has so far taken two years(2010and 2011). Uwezo is designed to have scale for greater impact to be achieved. It is a nationwide assessment covering 30 villages per districts, 20 house holds per village and one school per village. Nationwide scale makes it more attractive to all stakeholders because every part of the country easily identify with the results and allows for comparison. This is mainly done in order to improve on the level of education Uganda.