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What We Are Learning About Learning Networks [CIES 2024 Presentation]

March, 2024
The USAID Leading Through Learning Global Platform (LTLGP) and USAID Improving Learning Outcomes for Asia (ILOA) presented a panel at the 2024 CIES Conference on what each project has been...

To Nudge or Not to Nudge: Improving implementation and practice to achieve learning for all [CIES 2024 Presentation]

March, 2024
The theme of CIES asks our society of academics and practitioners to confront the ways in which education is a space of debate and contestation, and how stakeholders both internal and external to...

Analyzing Alignment in Early Grade Reading Curricula, Instruction, and Assessment in Nepal: The Surveys of Enacted Curriculum Approach [CIES 2023 Presentation]

February, 2023
This presentation was given at the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) annual conference in Washington, DC on February 21, 2023. The presentation describes a systematic research...

What have we learned about improving learning at the system level? [CIES 2023 Presentation]

February, 2023
This presentation, given at the CIES 2023 Annual Conference, highlights the global shift in measurement and improvement in learning outcomes since the adoption of SDG 4.1.1, under which countries...

The mathematical knowledge for teaching survey [CIES 2023 Presentation]

February, 2023
The Mathematics Knowledge for Teaching (MKT) is a short survey (23 items) that measures primary grade teacher knowledge by a) math domains and b) pedagogical and content knowledge. Math domain...

Education system strengthening across Asia: a systematic review of USAID activities and critical discussion [CIES 2023 Panel Presentation]

February, 2023
The purpose of this formal group panel presentation is to hold an in-depth discussion on USAID’s investments into system strengthening across Asia over the past decade and how these efforts are...

The Teacher Professional Support System in Nepal: A case of implementation research informing policy [CIES 2023 Presentation]

February, 2023
In 2014, the Nepal Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology (MOEST) developed a National Early Grade Reading Program (NEGRP), aimed at improving the reading achievement of early-grade...

Navigating Aid Alternatives: Government-to-Government funding partnerships in Jordan, Senegal, Nepal [CIES 2023 Panel Presentations]

February, 2023
Since 2010, USAID has increased funding to partner country institutions by 50% [1], and the current administration’s localization agenda suggests that the government-to-government (G2G) modality...

All Children Reading–Asia (ACR-Asia): USAID Systems Strengthening Review

November, 2022
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Systems Strengthening Review set out to understand how a portfolio of 20 USAID-funded Activities to improve learning outcomes for students,...

Nepal: Assessing Early Grade Reading Outcomes the Cost-effective Way [CIES 2022 Presentation]

April, 2022
Policy linking is a standard-setting methodology, long used in many countries, to set benchmarks (or cut scores) on learning assessments that allow those countries to determine what percentage of...

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