AUTHOR
King, S.
Presentations | 19 March 2024
To Nudge or Not to Nudge: Improving implementation and practice to achieve learning for all [CIES 2024 Presentation]
The theme of CIES asks our society of academics and practitioners to confront the ways in which education is a space of debate and contestation, and how stakeholders both internal and external to education systems seek to effect change (or maintain the status quo).
Reports | 29 November 2023
How Teacher Social Networks Might be Leveraged to Enhance Diffusion and Implementation of New Pedagogies
The conventional ways that new pedagogies are taught and supported in low- and middle-income countries rarely leverage the social networks and relationships that are paramount for individuals to shift their beliefs and make positive decisions about adopting new methodologies, and for them to sustain
Reports | 9 October 2023
Additional Analysis for Self-Administered EGRA (Ghana, English)
This report summarizes the findings of additional analyses conducted to delve deeper and develop more insight into the piloting of the Self-Administered Early Grade Reading Assessment (SA-EGRA) and the Self-Administered Early Grade Mathematics Assessment (SA-EGMA).
Reports | 19 January 2023
Report of Self-Administered EGRA/EGMA Pilot (Ghana, English)
This report summarizes the findings of an effort to develop and validate tablet-based, self-administered assessments of English-language foundational literacy and numeracy in the early grades.
Presentations | 4 May 2022
Return to Learning Cambodia Case Study [CIES 2022 Presentation]
The All Children Reading–Asia (ACR–Asia) Return to Learning Cambodia Case Study was designed to research the Cambodia Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sport’s (MoEYS’s) response to the disruption in learning created by the COVID-19 pandemic during different phases of school closure and reopening in
Reports | 11 March 2021
Early Grade Reading Assessment 2018, Chichewa National Results for Standards 1 and 3
This report presents key findings of the 2018 national assessment of early grade reading skills in Chichewa, a core language for reading and language development in Malawi.
Presentations | 28 July 2019
Global Learning XPRIZE Data Summary
This presentation was delivered to a team of researchers who participated in a "Data Deep Dive" convened by the XPRIZE Foundation after the announcement of the Global Learning XPRIZE award.
Reports | 9 January 2019
Cambodia, Student Performance in Early Literacy: Baseline Report
This report presents the results of a baseline assessment of upper preschool and grade 1 student performance in pre-literacy and early grade reading. The assessment included samples drawn from three provinces in Cambodia: Kampong Thom, Siem Reap, and Battambang (control).
Publications | 17 February 2018
Is ‘summer’ reading loss universal? Using ongoing literacy assessment in Malawi to estimate the loss from grade-transition breaks
Published abstract: "Summer learning loss – decreased academic performance following an extended school break, typically during the period after one grade ends and before another grade starts – is a well-documented phenomenon in North America, but poorly described in sub-Saharan African contexts.
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