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USAID Uganda School Health and Reading Program, Systemic, Sustained Reading Achievement

February, 2020

Briefer: Final Early Grade Reading Assessment Results from the USAID/Uganda School Health and Reading Program. This briefer compares English and local language reading fluency and comprehension...

Reading achievement in the Philippines: The role of language complexity

October, 2019

This study looks at the impact of first language (L1, or “mother tongue”) complexity on reading achievement in the Philippines using Grade 3 Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) data collected in...

2019 National Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA): English and Filipino, Grade 3 Findings Report

September, 2019

This study explores the extent to which mother-tongue-based multilingual education (MTB-MLE), as implemented at scale in the Philippines, is having an impact on students’ reading and writing...

2019 National Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA): English and Filipino, Grade 3 [Brief]

September, 2019

An overview of the results of a nationally-representative Early Grade Reading Study conducted in 2019 in the Philippines. The full report is available.

Learning to Read: The Power of the 5T's

July, 2019

Learning to read is a critical foundational skill in the early grades. The Government of Uganda in partnership with the Literacy Achievement and Retention Activity funded by the United States...

Learning to Read: The Power of the 5 T’s

June, 2019

Animated video developed by the Uganda Literacy Achievement and Retention Activity under RTI International describing the 5 Ts - Time, Teaching, Text, Tongue and Testing.

Getting to ownership and use of information: the case of Uganda in Ministry-led Early Grade Reading Assessment and Action Research [CIES 2019 Presentation]

May, 2019

The USAID/Uganda School Health and Reading Program (SHRP) works through existing Ministry systems to provide reading instruction in 12 local languages and English to over 3,000 primary schools. A...

Users, Functions & Findings: The evolution of Classroom Observation tools for literacy instruction in Uganda [CIES 2019 Presentation]

May, 2019

In this CIES 2019 presentation, Rachel Jordan presents how Tangerine Tutor is used to conduct and improve upon classroom observations in the USAID Uganda School Health and Reading Program.

Training teachers or robots: Unexpected findings of a 7-country teacher professional development study [CIES 2019 Presentation]

May, 2019

This presentation unpacks findings from a seven-country teacher professional development study, presented by Dr. Benjamin Piper and Jessica Mejia at CIES 2019.

Benefits (and Costs) of improved data for tracking SDG4 [CIES 2019 Presentation]

May, 2019

There is an abundance of research about the costs of measuring the SDGs. Institutions with the mandate to measure the SDGs are busy estimating costs and making plans to improve both reporting and...

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