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Presentations | 2 March 2023

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

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 may be increasingly frequent.
Presentations | 2 March 2023

Using teaching and learning materials in Uzbekistan: Lessons from observations and interviews [CIES 2023 Presentation]

The purpose of this panel presentation is to present the results of two uptake studies to understand how mathematics, Uzbek language arts, ICT, and EFL teachers in Uzbekistan are using and applying newly developed teaching and learning materials in the classroom.
Presentations | 1 March 2023

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

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 to teachers’ devices that will both facilitate data collection and display easily understandable inform
Toolkits and Manuals | 1 March 2023

Mathematics Teacher Guide

A teacher's guide for mathematics instruction in the context of Jordan, developed by the Jordanian Ministry of Education.
Presentations | 28 February 2023

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

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 are asked to report on the “the proportion of children and young people…achieving at least a minimum pro
Instruments and Questionnaires | 28 February 2023

Early Grade Reading and Mathematics Initiative: KG Data for Decision-Making: Phase II National Survey of Families

The Kingdom of Jordan’s Human Resource Development (HRD) Strategy mandates the universal provision of kindergarten (KG2) by 2025.
Presentations | 24 February 2023

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

This presentation was given at the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) annual conference in Washington, DC on February 21, 2023.
Presentations | 24 February 2023

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

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.
Presentations | 23 February 2023

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

The lack of information about children’s oral language skills limits our understanding of why some children do not respond to literacy instruction.
Publications | 18 February 2023

Teaching by the book: Teacher decision-making while using structured lesson plans

The purpose of this paper is to present a methodology for understanding materials usage in primary classrooms in Sub-Saharan Africa that centers teachers’ actions and voices. The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal 4 focuses on improved primary education around the world.