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An Addition to the Toolbox for Measuring Literacy Skills of the Youngest Students: The Group Administered Literacy Assessment (GALA)

February, 2017
The GALA was designed to maximize the benefits of a group-administered instrument, while also taking advantage of lessons learned from the individually administered Early Grade Reading Assessment...

Results of Social and Behavior Change Communication Pilots in Senegal and Malawi

February, 2017
Social and behavior change communication (SBCC) represents the culmination of decades of research and practice in the public health field, where communication has been a critical element of...

Complements to the Early Grade Reading Assessment: Spelling, Reading Comprehension, and Oral Language Subtasks

February, 2017
The EGRA has been a useful tool to understand students’ progress toward fluent reading. However, users are often left wanting additional information about reading comprehension, writing, and...

Setting and Using Benchmarks for Reading Performance

February, 2017
The spread of the Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) has yielded a wealth of country-specific evidence on students’ literacy skills. Those data were then used to help a dozen countries set...

Special Issue--Working to improve: seven approaches to quality improvement in education

February, 2017
A collection of articles on Improvement Science, published in a special issue (Volume 25 Issue 1) of the journal "Quality Assurance in Education". Each article describes one of seven improvement...

[Presentation] Boys' Underachievement: Global Literature Review

February, 2017
This presentation summarizes the lessons learned from the global literature review on boys' underachievement in education.

What works in early grade literacy instruction

February, 2017
Over the past decade, RTI International has pursued the goal of quality, inclusive, differentiated early grade literacy instruction in nearly 30 early grade reading or early grade literacy...

Malawi MERIT SD4 Teachers Guide, Chichewa

February, 2017
Teachers guide in Chichewa for Standard 4.

Uganda/LARA EGR Monitoring and Support Supervision Tools

February, 2017
There are two sets of monitoring and support supervision (MSS) tools that the project has been using throughout the implementation period. These are; (i) the Lesson Observation Tools; and (ii) the...

Doing Reform Differently: Combining Rigor and Practicality in Implementation and Evaluation of System Reforms

February, 2017
This paper brings together two promising intellectual trends in development: Doing Development Differently (DDD), and whole-system reform. In addition, it provides a framework for evaluating...

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