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UIS Criteria and EGRA: Proposal for EGRA
Mon, March 24, 4:30 to 5:45pm, Palmer House, Floor: 3rd Floor, Salon 6Proposal
The Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA), first developed by USAID and the World Bank in 2006, has been used in over 75 countries and adapted into more than 120 languages. At least 23 countries have conducted nationally representative EGRAs in Grade 2 or 3 since 2014, and three additional countries are planning to conduct nationally representative EGRAs in 2024-2025. Further, at least three countries have adopted EGRA as their national assessment instrument for early grades.
Prior to the December 2023 GAML, the EGRA guidance was aligned with the criteria included in the Interim Reporting Guidance for SDG 4.1.1a. USAID will release the 2024 EGRA guidance aligned with the six reporting criteria for SDG 4.1.1a reporting while retaining its utility as a tool for informing government and USAID programmatic choices. In addition to the 2024 EGRA guidance, USAID will release audience-specific resources for Mission- and policy-level stakeholders, EGRA implementers, and analysts; hold 2024 EGRA Toolkit dissemination events; and offer training sessions on the new guidance.
USAID is currently supporting three countries where the revised EGRA guidance will be applied for national and sub-national level student assessments, with the intention to use the national level assessment results for SDG 4.1.1a reporting. This presentation will provide an overview of the changes to the EGRA guidance in each of the six criteria, provide examples from the three countries on how the EGRA guidance were implemented, and share results from the three countries available as of the CIES conference. The three countries will inform further refinement of the EGRA guidance and how the results can and cannot be used for both global indicator reporting and informing government-led and USAID-supported education programs.