Early Mathematics Development

The Status of Instruction Study (SIS) aims to shed light on teachers’ knowledge, attitudes and beliefs, and skills and behaviors; the resources available at the school level and for the targeted subjects; and how these resources are used. The SIS was designed to inform the customization and development of student textbooks, teacher guides, and TPD approaches. Originally, the SIS was to have a school-based data collection component that would include classroom observations and parent and teacher interviews. Given the protracted challenges resulting from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, data collection was conducted remotely and focused on garnering feedback directly from teachers. As such one limitation of this study is that all data are self-reported without additional means of triangulation or confirmation at this point in time. This report presents the SIS methodology and findings from online surveys administered to more than 9,400 teachers from all regions of Uzbekistan, including the Republic of Karakalpakstan and Tashkent City.

The Uzbekistan Education for Excellence Program is a 4-year program (December 9, 2019–December 8, 2023) funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by the RTI International Consortium in collaboration with the Uzbekistan Ministry of Public Education. The Program conducted baseline Early Grade Reading and Mathematics Assessments (EGRA and EGMA, respectively) in November and December 2021. The purpose of the baseline was to measure the pre-intervention levels of mathematics and Uzbek language reading achievement for students at the end of grade 2 and grade 4.

Primary Mathematics Skills Assessment Tool: 2021 Stimulus Sheet.

Primary Mathematics Skills Assessment Tool: 2021 Assessor Protocol.

Primary Reading Skills Assessment Tool: 2021 Assessor Instructions Form.

A tool for evaluating teacher performance for grades 1-3 mathematics education in Arabic language in distance education.

Classroom observation tool for grades 1-3 mathematics education in Arabic.

A Guide to Using the Inquiry Board to Calculate the Directorate of Education’s Indicators Related to the Early Grades Dashboard in the Educational Supervision System

A guide to using the private electronic educational supervision system for early grades in Jordan. The Reading Arithmetic with Understanding and Arithmetic for the Early Grades (RAMP) initiative is a development program adopted by the Jordanian Ministry of Education, with the aim of establishing methodologies and practices for learning reading and arithmetic in the early grades, in all Jordanian public schools. The initiative seeks to raise the levels of early grade students in reading and arithmetic, so that they are able to read fluently, comprehend and perform problem analyses.

Pupil Questionnaire administered to early grade students in light of the educational conditions in the CVOID-19 Pandemic in 2019.