Equating Rwanda’s LARS IV national and termly LEGRA assessments to enable comparison of results

• In Event: Rwanda’s delivery of national and term assessment of Kinyarwanda early grade reading in 2021

Proposal

Equating the Rwanda’s LARS IV and LEGRA assessments to enable comparison of results

Rwanda has succeeded in developing a national sample based assessment and a termly census assessment which both utilise EGRA derived oral reading fluency and reading comprehension assessments but delivered differently for different purposes.

This paper will reflect on how Rwanda can compare the data from these two assessments to monitor through term assessments whether they are on track to meet their HCI goals.

The paper will present:

o An approach to equating EGRA, LARS and EGRA instruments and assessment process
o Equating findings from the study
o Recommendations

Author

• alice michelazzi, EdIntersect, LLC