Monitoring, Evaluation, and Research
La lecture au Mali. Resultats de l’etude EGRA 2009. [Video]
This video was created by a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in order to disseminate results of the early grade reading assessment (EGRA), raise awareness of the importance of reading, and mobilize communities.
La lecture au Senegal: Resultats de l’etude EGRA (2009) [Video]
This video was created under a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation by a local Senegalese production company in order to raise awareness of the importance of reading and mobilize communities to take action.
Rapport d'Analyse: Evaluation des Compétences Fondamentales en Lecture au Sénégal
This report describes the results of an early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) conducted in Senegal in two languages: French and Wolof. The research was supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and included teacher interviews and classroom observations that captured the language of instruction being used in the classroom in order to explain the context of the findings.
User Guide for the EGRA Calculator
This user guide accompanies the Excel-based EGRA Calculator to offer tips and suggestions for each step in the calculator to help the user enter appropriate and accurate information.
EGRA Calculator
The EGRA Calculator is an Excel-based estimation tool that can produce an approximate budget reflecting the costs commonly associated with implementing an EGRA. The tool itself contains step-by-step instructions plus descriptions to guide the user to insert or adjust the parameters. Tips and suggestions for each step are also provided in an accompanying User Guide.
Senegal Behavior Change Communication Research: Kaolack Endline Report
This report summarizes the results from a three-month pilot research activity in Kaolack, Senegal designed to test whether communications techniques can bring about changes in family members’ knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors related to their children learning to read. At the end of three months, family members in Kaolack demonstrated strong recall of the main messages of the campaign and were much more likely than control families to espouse beliefs supportive of their children learning to read.
Zambia 2016 Grade 2 National Assessment Survey Implementation Plan
This implementation report was designed to assist the Examination Council of Zambia (ECZ) by providing detailed instructions for carrying out the 2016 National Assessment Survey for Grade 2.
Zambia 2016 Grade 2 NAS Implementation Plan
This implementation report was designed to assist the Examination Council of Zambia (ECZ) by providing detailed instructions for carrying out the 2016 National Assessment Survey for Grade 2.
National Early Grade Literacy and Numeracy Survey Jordan: Intervention Impact Analysis Report in Arabic
This report, translated in Arabic, discusses the impact and results of the pilot intervention that was implemented during the 2013-2014 school year across 43 schools reaching more than 400 teachers and approximately 12,000 students in Jordan.
National Early Grade Literacy and Numeracy Survey - Jordan: Intervention Impact Analysis Report
This report discusses the impact and results of the pilot intervention that was implemented during the 2013-2014 school year across 43 schools reaching more than 400 teachers and approximately 12,000 students in Jordan.