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The EGRA Calculator is an Excel-based estimation tool that can produce an approximate budget reflecting the costs commonly associated with implementing an EGRA. The tool itself contains step-by-step instructions plus descriptions to guide the user to insert or adjust the parameters. Tips and suggestions for each step are also provided in an accompanying User Guide.

This document was designed as a practical response to requests from USAID’s Africa Missions, which have increasingly indicated their need for more guidance on the role of language of instruction (LOI) in their efforts to achieve Goal 1 of the 2011 USAID education strategy: Improved reading skills for 100 million children in primary grades (USAID, 2011). This need reflects a call by USAID in the Technical Notes of its 2011 USAID Education Strategy (the Bureau of Economic Growth Agriculture and Trade, Office of Education [EGAT/ED]), which identified LOI among the seven areas in which Missions were likely to need technical assistance or additional resources for designing or implementing early grade reading programs.

This presentation was prepared for the Snapshot of School Management Effectiveness (SSME) Workshop held in Washington, DC, December 18, 2008. The workshop was organized by RTI International for a group of international education experts. Participants reviewed pilot applications of the SSME, the initial motivations for its development, and the validity of the resulting data. Participants also provided advice related to future development of the instrument.

Social and Behavior Change Communication is the systematic application of interactive, theory-based, and research-driven communication processes and strategies to address tipping points for change at the individual, community, and social levels. The files included with this resource include the presentation and background materials used during a seminar on SBCC delivered by Karen Schmidt and Joe DeStefano. The agenda for this SBCC Seminar, delivered in May 2014, was: Part 1: What is Social and Behavior Change Communication? Part 2: What is the history and theoretical basis for SBCC? Part 3: What is the best way to develop a SBCC Strategy?

This report discusses two overarching themes for the behavior change communication (BCC) activity under Education Data for Decision Making (EdData II), Task Order 20. We begin by presenting a summary of pertinent health behavior theories and studies, which aim to inform the BCC activity and suggest possible techniques and strategies that can be applied to the education sector. We then move to describing a proposed applied research study, which will use the results of the health behavior studies to develop a possible model to be used for implementing a literacy intervention in a developing country.

In classrooms, teachers use a variety of assessments. Formative and summative assessments provide them information on the effectiveness of the instruction they are providing during and after a lesson. Assessments also differ in the type of information they provide. Criterion-referenced assessments measure what students know against a set of skills or knowledge. Results from norm-referenced assessments indicate how well a student did in relation to a group of similar students. Each type of assessment has a function and provides unique information to the system.

Evolution, coverage, Results, Challenges and opportunities of early grade reading assessments (EGRA).

This presentation was prepared for the Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference held in Washington, D.C. on 10 March, 2015. The presentation looks at teachers and teaching by evaluating education policy in 11 countries in terms of constraints to more effective teaching and policy recommendations.

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 where literacy issues remain critical and where improvement in underway.

This presentation was presented by Alison Pflepsen and USAID to provide information about a recently developed resource of use to those working to improve reading and learning outcomes. The presentation discusses how to plan for language use in education. It was presented at CIES on March 10, 2015.