So, your learning assessment was postponed…Though many of the issues we are facing in ensuring children worldwide are in school and learning are not new, COVID-19 has magnified the challenges. This pandemic has impacted nearly all facets of the world’s education systems and programs at the same time.
Tracy Brunette | 23 April 2020
School closures and shifting timelines: When is it best to test if an assessment cannot take place as planned?
Tracy Brunette | 25 June 2019
Tablets to support teachers to teach reading in Uganda: Feel good? Yes. Effective? Partially. Promising? Definitely.
Tablet programs are extremely popular among beneficiaries. And we get it.
Presentations | 2 May 2019
Getting to ownership and use of information: the case of Uganda in Ministry-led Early Grade Reading Assessment and Action Research [CIES 2019 Presentation]
The USAID/Uganda School Health and Reading Program (SHRP) works through existing Ministry systems to provide reading instruction in 12 local languages and English to over 3,000 primary schools.
Tracy Brunette | 10 September 2018
How a flashcard became a turning point for a community: A Simple innovation in reading assessment sparks magic in Uganda
This post was written by Kalab Yakii, program field assistant in Arua district, and Tracy Brunette, RTI.
Tracy Brunette | 1 November 2017
Collaborate, Learn and Adapt (CLA): Building an Effective M&E Culture in a Uganda Education Project
Monitoring and managing inputs at scale is not easy. How do you know if you are training the right teachers, if they are using their new skills, or if the books are getting into the hands of the learners?