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What Works to Improve Learning at Scale? Key Findings from Learning at Scale and the Kenya Tusome Early Grade Reading Activity

May, 2022
This brief presents findings on what worked to improve learning outcomes at scale under 8 successful early grade literacy programs, with a focus on findings from the Tusome program in Kenya.1...

Social Network Analysis Methods for Higher Education Development [CIES Presentation]

April, 2022
Social network analysis methods for international development: Applications in higher education development. Social Network Analysis (SNA) is a promising yet underutilized tool in the...

PLAY overview CIES (Dubeck et al., 2022)

April, 2022
Play has the potential to transform the global learning crisis. In infancy and early childhood, play builds a strong foundation for later learning by improving brain development and growth...

Linking EGRA and GALA for Sustainable Benchmarking [CIES Presentation]

April, 2022
Prior Early Grade Reading Assessments (EGRA) have been used to set reading fluency benchmarks in Tanzania for USAID report and for the Government of Tanzania (GoT). Since the EGRA requires...

Measuring the impact of play on social and emotional learning across countries [CIES Presentation]

April, 2022
This presentation was part of a CIES 2022 panel on measuring learning through play and child SEL outcomes across humanitarian and LMIC contexts. The presentation focuses primarily on the...

Nepal: Assessing Early Grade Reading Outcomes the Cost-effective Way [CIES 2022 Presentation]

April, 2022
Policy linking is a standard-setting methodology, long used in many countries, to set benchmarks (or cut scores) on learning assessments that allow those countries to determine what percentage of...

Right-fit EdTech: Leveraging Loquat and other (machine) learning to support foundational learning in LMICs [CIES Presentation]

April, 2022
Title: Right-fit EdTech: Leveraging Loquat and other (machine) learning to support foundational learning in LMICs Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has severely disrupted global education systems:...

Agent-based modeling: Understanding influence of teacher-student interactions on learning and equity [CIES Presentation]

April, 2022
“Agent based modeling: A method for understanding individual, social, and environmental influences on learning and equality in the classroom.” Learning science in the past decade has provided...

Building an Assessment of Community Defined Social-Emotional Competencies from the Ground Up - A Tanzanian Example

April, 2022
Most of the research that informs our understanding of children’s social-emotional learning (SEL) comes from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic (WEIRD) societies where behavior is...

Standard Operating Procedures: SOPs Data Quality Assessment (DQA) Guide

April, 2022
The Early Grade Reading and Mathematics Initiative (RAMP) has a great interest in the quality of the data related to the initiative’s activities, whether in term of the trainees’ data (teachers,...

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