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Presentations | 8 April 2018

Tayari's Longitudinal Endline Results: Program Impact and Implementation Decisions- CIES 2018 Presentation

CIES 2018 Presentation, given by Ben Piper. The Kenyan Ministry of Education (MoE) in collaboration with RTI International and the county Governments of Laikipia, Nairobi, Siaya and Uasin Gishu have been piloting the Tayari Early Childhood Development and Education (ECDE) model since 2014.
Presentations | 8 April 2018

Insights about how cultural differences condition student response on a survey of student perception of school climate- CIES 2018 Presentation

CIES 2018 Presentation, given by Peter Muyingo. Education programming worldwide is beginning to include dedicated activities to support a positive school culture.
Presentations | 6 April 2018

The Early Grade Reading Barometer: Increasing access to and use of data on learning outcomes- CIES 2018 Presentation

CIES 2018 Presentation, given by Amber Gove and Helen Jang. The Early Grade Reading Barometer offers a wealth of actionable Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) data to help to change the lives of young children. With 40 datasets from 19 places, the Barometer supports data transparency.
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.
Presentations | 8 March 2018

Introducing EF Touch (Presentation)

Executive Function (EF) refers to a range of cognitive skills that are key to problem solving and a child's ability to “learn how to learn.” These skills experience an important growth period during early childhood; thus, between 2005 and 2010, researches at the University of North Carolina designed
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
In the News and Impact Stories | 23 January 2018

Principles for Digital Development - Tangerine: Mobile Assessments Made Easy

This case study was selected by the Digital Principles for Development as a model illustrating the principles of "design with the user in mind" and "be data driven".
Publications | 5 January 2018

Implementing large-scale instructional technology in Kenya: Changing instructional practice and developing accountability in a National Education System

Article published in the IJEDICT, Vol. 13, No. 3 (2017). Published Abstract: "Previous large-scale education technology interventions have shown only modest impacts on student achievement.