AUTHOR
Nordstrum, L.
Reports | 30 April 2020
Towards the Development of An Assessment of Employability Skills
As the world faces higher and higher unemployment rates among its youth, there is increasing interest in evaluating whether schools are adequately preparing their youth to enter the workforce.
Presentations | 27 March 2018
Measuring Soft Skills Through Mobile Gaming [Presentation]
This presentation was prepared for UNESCO Mobile Learning Week, 2018. It describes an RTI International internal research program to learn whether mobile gaming can be used to assess soft skills important for employability.
Literature Reviews and Desk Studies | 1 February 2018
Measures of quality through classroom observation for the Sustainable Development Goals: Lessons from low-and-middle-income countries
Background paper prepared for the 2016 Global Education Monitoring Report Education for people and planet: Creating sustainable futures for all
With the adoption of the United Nations General Assembly’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), global education agencies are grappling with how quality c
Publications | 11 April 2017
Special Issue--Working to improve: seven approaches to quality improvement in education
A collection of articles on Improvement Science, published in a special issue (Volume 25 Issue 1) of the journal "Quality Assurance in Education". Each article describes one of seven improvement methods, presents its history, and gives at least one example of it employed in the education sector.
Reports | 18 January 2017
National Baseline Assessment for the 3Rs (Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic) Using EGRA, EGMA, and SSME in Tanzania
In July 2013, the National Baseline Assessment for 3Rs (Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic)Using Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA), Early Grade Mathematics Assessment (EGMA), and Snapshot of School Management Effectiveness (SSME) was initiated.
Reports | 30 November 2016
Incentives to teach, incentives to read: A pilot of symbolic incentives for teachers and students in Jordan
Motivation is key to behavior change in teaching and learning processes. Motivated teachers are thought to be more likely to be willing to experiment with different instructional approaches in the classroom. Motivated students are hypothesized to put forth extra effort during learning activities.
Reports | 9 November 2016
Indonesia 2014: The National Early Grade Reading Assessment and Snapshot of School Management Effectiveness Survey: Report of Findings
In partnership with the Ministry of Education and Culture (MOEC), the Ministry of Religious Affairs (MORA), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID/Indonesia), RTI International administered the two surveys to 4,812 grade 2 students, equally divided between boys and girls a
Literature Reviews and Desk Studies | 4 October 2016
Effective Teaching and Education Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa (Report)
This report, which is broadly tasked with presenting evidence on the state of teacher effectiveness in sub-Saharan Africa, represents an attempt to bridge the gap between what has hitherto been a sustained focus on teacher characteristics or student outcomes and a more holistic conceptualization of
Reports | 26 September 2016
Liberia Teacher Training Program Endline Assessment of the Impact of Early Grade Reading and Mathematics Interventions
This report addresses the main research question: In Cohort 1 and Cohort 2 schools, were the pupils who participated in the United States Agency for International Development’s Liberia Teacher Training Program (LTTP) Phase II (LTTP II) reading and mathematics interventions now achieving better resul
Reports | 23 September 2016
National Early Grade Literacy and Numeracy Survey Jordan: Intervention Impact Analysis Report in Arabic
This report, translated in Arabic, discusses the impact and results of the pilot intervention that was implemented during the 2013-2014 school year across 43 schools reaching more than 400 teachers and approximately 12,000 students in Jordan.