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USAID/Uganda Literacy Achievement and Retention Activity Early Grade Reading Assessment EGRA Brief 004

May, 2020
Research shows that mother tongue-based education in the early years improves reading and learning outcomes. Participating pupils begin learning to read in their local language in Primary 1. They...

2019 Language Usage Study in Bahasa Sug, Chavacano, Magindanawn, and Mëranaw Mother Tongue Schools

April, 2020
The objective of this study was to provide insight into the relationships between the teachers’ and students’ language usage, the MTB-MLE policy implementation, and student reading outcomes,...

Effectiveness of Coaching as a Teacher Professional Development Strategy in Low-Income Countries [Conference Panel Recording]

April, 2020
Recording of #vCIES 2020 conference panel presentation entitled: Effectiveness of Coaching as a Teacher Professional Development Strategy in low-income countries

Implementing Malawi’s National Reading Program: Opportunities, Achievements, and Challenges [Conference Presentations]

April, 2020
The Malawi National Reading Program (NRP) is the country's flagship education program aimed at improving the reading skills of all Malawian learners in Standards 1 to 4. USAID supports the NRP by...

Understanding the Social Classroom: The basis of effective pedagogy?

April, 2020
Literacy instruction programs have arguably had limited success because they focus on the technical – but not the social – aspects of literacy instruction. Reform efforts in sub-Saharan Africa...

Supporting SEL in Uganda Primary Schools: What have we learned after one year.

April, 2020
This presentation summarizes the findings from Occasion 2 of the Uganda/Literacy Achievement and Retention Activity longitudinal study of the impact of the Journeys intervention that aims to...

2019 Language Usage Study in Bahasa Sug, Chavacano, Magindanawn, and Mëranaw Mother Tongue Schools (USAID ACR Asia Philippines)

April, 2020
In 2009 the Philippines Department of Education issued Order No. 74, “Institutionalizing Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE),” calling for the use of the learners’ mother tongues...

Do’s and Don’ts of Improving Teaching Through Instructional Support: Findings from a Multi-country study of coaching and communities of practice

April, 2020
RTI’s multi-country study examines a range of instructional support packages that include a variety of designs for coaching and communities of practice across all of RTI’s existing programs in...

Assessment as a service not a place: Transitioning assessment centers to school-based identification systems

April, 2020
This guide addresses the lack of appropriate, useful disability screening and identification systems and services as countries look to educate all students in inclusive settings. Specifically,...

2019 Regional Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA): Bahasa Sug, Chavacano, Magindanawn, and Mëranaw

April, 2020
This study measured students’ reading ability and gathered basic demographic information from children and teachers. Some standard context information was also gathered from children about their...

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