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Developing school-level instruments for better understanding effective numeracy instruction at scale [CIES 2023 Presentation]

February, 2023
While there has been substantial investment in early-grade reading in low- and middle-income country contexts (LMICs) in the last 15 years, and a concomitant increase in evidence around what works...

The mathematical knowledge for teaching survey [CIES 2023 Presentation]

February, 2023
The Mathematics Knowledge for Teaching (MKT) is a short survey (23 items) that measures primary grade teacher knowledge by a) math domains and b) pedagogical and content knowledge. Math domain...

Understanding Teachers’ Attitudes towards Learning through Play and their Classroom Practice in Kenya, Rwanda and Ghana [CIES 2023 Presentation]

February, 2023
This presentation focused on learning through play-based pedagogies in Kenya, Rwanda and Ghana. Some key findings discussed are: (1) Teachers in general support the concept of play and employing...

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...

Adapting the Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) for Students Who are Deaf in the Philippines [CIES 2023 Panel Presentations]

February, 2023
The purpose of this formal group panel session is to share and discuss the experience in the Philippines of adapting the Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) for students who are deaf and...

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...

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...

Assessment Validity & Reliability: Adapting Early Grade Reading Assessments for Children with Disabilities and Ensuring Valid & Reliable Instruments [CIES 2023 Presentation]

February, 2023
USAID’s All Children Reading–Cambodia (ACR) project seeks to improve the EGR abilities of children in preschool to Grade 2 ACR proposes to achieve its goals by developing, testing, and...

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

February, 2023
This presentation was given at the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) annual conference in Washington, DC on February 21, 2023. The presentation describes a systematic research...

UzbekistanEducationforExcellenceProgram: Early Grade Reading and Mathematics Assessment Baseline Report

June, 2022
To evaluate the impact of the Program’s reading and mathematics components, baseline Early Grade Reading and Mathematics Assessments (EGRA and EGMA, respectively) were conducted in November and...

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