| Table of contents |
1. Executive Summary
2. Introduction
3. Early Grade Intervention in Reading
3.1 Year 1: Challenges and Lessons Learned
3.2 Year 2: Moving Forward with the Intervention
3.3 Lessons That EGRA Plus: Liberia Offers for Future Education Projects
3.3.1 Teacher and Student Learning Resources
3.3.2 Teacher Training and School-Based Support
3.3.3 EGRA Assessments
3.3.4 Community Outreach
3.3.5 System Improvements
4. Sustainability and Scale-Up
5. EGRA and EGMA Assessments
5.1 EGRA Assessor Training
5.2 EGRA Data Collection
5.3 EGRA Data Entry
5.4 EGMA
6. Research Design
7. EGRA Reliability Analysis
8. Passage and Word Calibration
9. Analysis of Discontinued Assessments
10. Figure Analysis by EGRA Section
10.1 Letter Naming Fluency
10.2 Phonemic Awareness
10.3 Familiar Word Fluency
10.4 Unfamiliar Word Fluency
10.5 Oral Reading Fluency (Connected Text)
10.6 Reading Comprehension
10.7 Listening Comprehension
10.8 Correlations Between Oral Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension
11. EGRA Plus Program Impact
11.1 Program Impact Comparing Grade 2 and Grade 3
11.2 Program Impact Comparing Entire Baseline and Entire Final Assessments
11.3 Program Impact Comparing Baseline Grade 2 and Final Grade 2
11.4 Program Impact Comparing Baseline Grade 3 and Final Grade 3
11.5 Program Impact Comparing Baseline and Midterm, Disaggregated by Sex
12. Liberia Comparisons and Benchmarks
12.1 Comparisons with International Benchmarks
12.2 Comparisons with Kenya and Guyana
12.3 Percentile Score Comparisons with DIBELS
12.4 Liberian Benchmark Example
13. EGRA Impact Analysis
13.1 General Findings
13.1.1 Letter Naming Fluency
13.1.2 Phonemic Awareness
13.1.3 Familiar Word Fluency
13.1.4 Unfamiliar Word Fluency
13.1.5 Oral Reading Fluency
13.1.6 Reading Comprehension
13.1.7 Listening Comprehension
13.2 Interacting EGRA Plus with Sex, Age, and Grade
13.3 Learning Rate Increases
13.4 Effect Sizes from Differences-in-Differences Analyses
13.5 Other Predictors
13.6 EGRA Plus Impact on Early Grade Mathematics Assessment
14. Qualitative Follow-Up Analysis
15. Further Research
16. Recommendations
Appendix A: Calibration of Baseline, Midterm, and Final Assessments
Appendix B: Estimating the Impact of Full and Light Treatment on Outcomes, Disaggregated |
