Presentations | 2 March 2023
Strengthening sector capacity for Student Learning Assessment in the context of bilingualism in Senegal [CIES 2023 Presentation]
This presentation on development of an assessment system under Senegal's new bilingual policy includes an explanation of the bilingual policy in Senegal and plans for development of a national assessment system including use of the ANLAS methodology (Analysis of National Learning Assessment Systems)
Presentations | 2 March 2023
Navigating Aid Alternatives: Government-to-Government funding partnerships in Jordan, Senegal, Nepal [CIES 2023 Panel Presentations]
Since 2010, USAID has increased funding to partner country institutions by 50% [1], and the current administration’s localization agenda suggests that the government-to-government (G2G) modality may be increasingly frequent.
Presentations | 1 March 2023
Digital Inclusion and data-driven dropout prevention in Guatemala [CIES 2023 Presentation]
Building on past efforts in dropout prevention, the Guatemala Basic Education Quality and Transitions Program seeks to support the Ministry of Education to deploy an open-source mobile application to teachers’ devices that will both facilitate data collection and display easily understandable inform
Instruments and Questionnaires | 28 February 2023
Early Grade Reading and Mathematics Initiative: KG Data for Decision-Making: Phase II National Survey of Families
The Kingdom of Jordan’s Human Resource Development (HRD) Strategy mandates the universal provision of kindergarten (KG2) by 2025.
Presentations | 24 February 2023
Analyzing Alignment in Early Grade Reading Curricula, Instruction, and Assessment in Nepal: The Surveys of Enacted Curriculum Approach [CIES 2023 Presentation]
This presentation was given at the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) annual conference in Washington, DC on February 21, 2023.
Reports | 10 January 2023
Co-designing Prototypes for Future Learning Spaces: A Field Guide for Scaling Future Learning Spaces Innovation in the Philippines
The purpose of this field guide is to introduce concepts, tools, and group activities that can be used to
guide educators in co-creating locally defined prototypes of future learning spaces that will not only
enhance social, emotional, and academic learning for all Filipino learners, but will ensure
Occasional Papers | 20 August 2022
Doing Reform Differently: Combining Rigor and Practicality in Implementation and Evaluation of System Reforms
This paper brings together two promising intellectual trends in development: Doing Development Differently (DDD), and whole-system reform. In addition, it provides a framework for evaluating system reforms, as rigorously as possible.
Reports | 22 June 2022
Strengthening institutional capacity to produce learning at scale: Case studies from Jordan, Malawi, Nepal, and Uganda
Case studies of RTI's work on strengthening institutional capacity in Nepal, Jordan, Malawi, and Uganda focusing on three core functions: (1) setting and communicating expectations; (2) monitoring against expectations; (3) providing targeted support to struggling schools.
Presentations | 4 May 2022
Findings from a temperature check of teachers’ and students’ needs in Cambodia, to inform school re-opening [CIES Presentation]
Due to increasing rates of COVID19 infection in Cambodia, primary schools were closed from March 2021 through the end of the school year.
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