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Uganda School Health and Reading Program: Cluster 3 Baseline Brief Report

June, 2015
This brief discusses the data collected for Cluster 3 schools using the Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) from 112 randomly selected government primary schools in 9 program districts in...

USAID/Uganda School Health and Reading Program: The Status of Early Grade Reading and Support to Primary School Teachers to Teach Reading in Uganda: Cluster 3 Baseline Report

June, 2015
This report summarizes the findings from a baseline assessment that was conducted in February and March, 2015 to determine the current status of reading achievement in the “Cluster 3” schools in...

The early grade reading assessment (EGRA): Its theoretical foundation, purpose, and limitations

June, 2015
Article published in the International Journal of Educational Development. Volume 40, January 2015, Pages 315–322. Published abstract: The rise and widespread adoption of the early grade reading...

Designing a program of teacher professional development to support beginning reading acquisition in coastal Kenya

June, 2015
Article published in the International Journal of Educational Development. Published abstract: "What should be considered when developing a literacy intervention that asks teachers to implement...

Education Evaluation Services in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) The DRC 2015 Early Grade Reading Assessment, Early Grade Mathematics Assessment, and Snapshot of School Management Effectiveness – Grade 3 Report of Findings

June, 2015
This study primarily provides USAID and the GDRC with information regarding the ability of Grade 3 children to read in three of the DRC’s national languages (Lingala, Kiswahili, and Tshiluba),...

Status of Early Grade Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa

June, 2015
Student literacy assessments contribute to identifying the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) progress toward Goal 1: improving reading skills for 100 million children by 2015....

Ghana Teacher Questionnaire

June, 2015
Under the USAID Partnership for Education: Testing activity, a teacher questionnaire was introduced to the 2015 national EGRA/EGMA survey in Ghana. This was in response to the 2013 EGRA/EGMA pupil...

USAID/Uganda School Health and Reading Program Cluster 3 Baseline: Lugwere, Lusoga, Lhukonzo, Ŋakarimojoŋ and English

May, 2015
This report summarizes the findings from a baseline assessment that was conducted in February and March, 2015 to determine the current status of reading achievement in the “Cluster 3” schools in...

National Assessment Survey of Learning Achievement at Grade 2: Results for Early Grade Reading in Zambia

April, 2015
This analysis report for the reading portion of the Grade 2 NAS presents the results for pupil performance on the EGRA in seven local languages, each of which also had a small set of subtasks in...

Presentation on the State of Literacy in Africa

March, 2015
This presentation discusses a desk study which was designed to advance knowledge of which countries have and have not conducted early grade reading assessments, while also providing information on...

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