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Briefs | 8 June 2026

Tanzania Reading Recovery Activity

The Tanzania Reading Recovery Activity (2023–2025), implemented by RTI International in partnership with the Government of Tanzania and funded by the Hempel Foundation, represents a large-scale, government-embedded remedial literacy initiative targeting Standard 2 learners falling behind in found

Presentations | 23 September 2024

Loquat - Machine Learning to Enhance Teaching and Learning Through Balanced Classroom "Talk Time"[CIES 2024 Poster Presentation]

RTI’s latest mobile EdTech product, "Loquat", uses language-agnostic speech activity detection to determine when someone is talking. It then passes the detected speech to a voice type classifier to establish who is currently speaking.
Presentations | 20 March 2024

Harnessing AI Speech Recognition Technology for Educational Reading Assessments amid the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippines [CIES 2024 Presentation]

The challenges of conducting educational assessments in low- and middle-income environments during the pandemic can be eased by AI-powered speech recognition technology that offers a promising solution to enhance assessments.
In the News and Impact Stories | 20 March 2024

UEEP Success Story #8: Student's English Improves with New Textbooks

This success story highlights a English as a foreign language teacher's experience piloting the new ELF textbooks launched by the Ministry of Public Education, with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID.
Reports | 11 October 2023

ICT Baseline Assessment

The information and communication technology (ICT) baseline assessment measured current competency of grades 9, 10, and 11 students on the Program-developed materials that include standards, teacher guides, and use of the ICT student textbooks (STB).
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 | 9 October 2023

Report of Self-Administered EGRA (Malawi, Chichewa)

This report summarizes the findings of an effort to develop and validate tablet-based, self-administered assessments of Chichewa-language foundational literacy and numeracy in the early grades in Malawi.
Reports | 29 September 2023

ICT Endline Assessment

This information and communication technology (ICT) assessment measured the competency of 1,244 grade 9, 10, and 11 students from the beginning to the end of the 2022–2023 school year in two regions.
Briefs | 28 September 2023

ICT - Teaching and Learning Materials Enhancement

In November 2018, the Republic of Uzbekistan Ministry of Preschool and School Education (MoPSE) announced its Information Technology Nation initiative, which is aimed at producing graduates with the ability to work in cyber security, software development and testing, network administration, graphic