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Measuring support for children’s engagement in learning: psychometric properties of the PLAY toolkit [CIES 2023 Presentation]

February, 2023
Despite the growing interest in supporting learning through play across many low and middle-income countries, measures of how contexts can support learning through play are lacking. As part of the...

Jordan reflective approach builds a more resilient education system [CIES 2023 Presentation]

February, 2023
The USAID-FCDO Jordan Early Grades Reading & Mathematics Initiative (RAMP) started in 2015 with the goal to improve Kg-Gr.3 students reading and mathematics skills through improving curriculum...

Examining teacher support and play-based practice in Kenya, Rwanda and Ghana [CIES 2023 Presentation]

February, 2023
While there is growing evidence of the impact of learning through play (LtP) on student outcomes in high-income countries, there is little research linking LtP to learning outcomes in low-and...

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...

Multi-Language Assessment (MLA) for young children: A screener to understand language assets [CIES 2023 Presentation]

February, 2023
The lack of information about children’s oral language skills limits our understanding of why some children do not respond to literacy instruction. Even though native language oral language skills...

Status of Instruction Study: A snapshot of in-service English teaching preparation and innovation in Uzbekistan [CIES 2023 Presentation]

February, 2023
The Uzbekistan Education for Excellence Program conducted a multi-phased Status of Instruction Study (SIS1 and 2) to understand the resources available and in use by schoolteachers in Uzbekistan....

Digital Inclusion and data-driven dropout prevention in Guatemala​ [CIES 2023 Presentation]

February, 2023
Building on past efforts in dropout prevention, the Guatemala Basic Education Quality and Transitions Program seeks to support the Ministry of Education to deploy an open-source mobile application...

Purpose-driven education system transformations: History Lessons from Korea and Japan [CIES 2023 Presentation]

February, 2023
The method used is a historical analysis of the route through which education in Japan and South Korea was framed, and then implemented, in the period starting in 1870 (approximately) in the...

The behavioral science and systems perspective: How teachers respond to educational change [CIES 2023 Presentation]

February, 2023
A key component of educational change is that it is often overlooks is that it is fundamentally an emotional process for teachers (Rogers, 2003). When change in instructional practice is expected...

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...

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