Usaid Sindh Reading Program Early Grade Reading and Mathematics Assessment Baseline Report
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USAID SINDH READING PROGRAM EARLY GRADE READING AND MATHEMATICS ASSESSMENT BASELINE REPORT SINDH PROVINCE, KASHMORE DISTRICT Contract No. AID-391-C-14-00001 Submission Date: 2 September 2015 This document was produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development. It was prepared by Chemonics International, Inc. and School-to-School International. EARLY GRADE READING AND MATHEMATICS ASSESSMENT BASELINE STUDY REPORT SINDH PROVINCE, KASHMORE DISTRICT Contracted under Order No. AID-391-C-14-00001 DISCLAIMER The authors’ views expressed in this document do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Agency for International Development or the United States Government. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The School-to-School International and Chemonics teams would like to thank USAID/Pakistan for their support. We would also like to recognize the stellar faculty and staff from the Sindh Education and Literacy Department, the Bureau of Curriculum, the Provincial Education Assessment Centre (PEACE) Sindh, and the Provincial Institute of Teacher Education (PITE) Sindh. Finally, this endeavor would not have been possible without the dedication of the Master Trainers, Quality Control Officers, data collection partners, subject experts and administrators who lent their continuous support throughout the assessment activity. The following persons played a major role in the process: Xxx (Chemonics International) Xxx (Chemonics International) Xxx (Chemonics International) Xxx (Chemonics International) Xxx (Chemonics International) Mark Lynd (School-to-School International) Aftab Khushk (School-to-School International) Hetal Thukral (School-to-School International) Beth Fincham (School-to-School International) Gaëlle Simon (School-to-School International) SRP BASELINE REPORT, SINDH PROVINCE, KASHMORE DISTRICT-USAID SINDH SEPTEMBER 2015 i CONTENTS Contents ........................................................................................................................................................................ ii Acronyms ..................................................................................................................................................................... vi Executive Summary .................................................................................................................................................... 1 Chapter 1: Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 11 Chapter 2: Methodology ........................................................................................................................................... 15 Chapter 3: EGRA Results – Kashmore District .................................................................................................. 23 Chapter 4: EGMA Results – Kashmore District ................................................................................................. 37 Chapter 5: Contextual Variables and EGRA and EGMA Performance .......................................................... 44 Annexes ....................................................................................................................................................................... 49 SRP BASELINE REPORT, SINDH PROVINCE, KASHMORE DISTRICT-USAID SINDH SEPTEMBER 2015 ii List of Tables and Figures Table 1: Baseline Schools in Kashmore ................................................................................................................. 16 Table 2: Baseline Participants in Kashmore .......................................................................................................... 16 Table 3: EGRA Test Structure ................................................................................................................................ 17 Table 4: EGMA Test Structure ............................................................................................................................... 18 Table 5: Enumerators training by District ............................................................................................................. 20 Table 6: Reliability Estimates ................................................................................................................................... 22 Table 7: EGRA Percent Correct Scores by Grade and Task .............................................................................. 24 Table 8: Average Phonics and Reading Fluency by Grade ................................................................................. 25 Table 9: Average Phonics and Reading Fluency by Grade and Gender ........................................................... 28 Table 10: Fluency Rates by PRP Thresholds And Grade ................................................................................... 29 Table 11: Grade 3 Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension ................................................................... 30 Table 12: Grade 5 Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension (Grade 2-level Text) .............................. 31 Table 13: Grade 5 Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension (Grade 4-level Text) .............................. 32 Table 14: EGRA Proportion of Students with Zero-scores by Grade and Task ............................................ 33 Table 15: EGRA Proportion of Students with Zero-scores by Grade, Gender and Task ............................ 33 Table 16: EGMA Percent Correct Scores by Grade and Task ........................................................................... 38 Table 17: Mathematics Fluency Rates by Grade ................................................................................................... 39 Table 18: Mathematics Computation Fluency Rate Means by Grade and Gender ......................................... 41 Table 19: EGMA Proportion of Students with Zero-scores by Grade and Task ........................................... 42 Table 20: EGMA Proportion of Zero-scores by Grade, Gender and Task ..................................................... 42 Table 21: Contextual variables from Student Questionnaire Associated with EGRA or EGMA Performance ...................................................................................................................................................... 45 Table 22: Contextual variables from Teacher and Head Teacher Questionnaire Associated with EGRA or EGMA Performance ........................................................................................................................................ 46 Table 23: Kashmore Reliability Estimates ............................................................................................................. 49 Table 24: EGRA Tasks Statistics for Kashmore .................................................................................................. 49 Table 25: EGMA Tasks Statistics for Kashmore ................................................................................................. 50 Table 26: EGRA Grade 3 Score Ranges and Calculations .................................................................................. 51 Table 27: EGRA Grade 5 Score Ranges and Calculations .................................................................................. 52 Table 28: Example of EGRA Percent Correct and Summary Scores ............................................................... 52 Table 29: Example of EGRA Timed Task Scores ............................................................................................... 52 Table 30: EGMA Grade 3 Score Ranges and Calculations ................................................................................. 53 Table 31: EGMA Grade 5 Score Ranges and Calculations ................................................................................. 53 Table 32: Example of EGMA Percent Correct and Summary Scores .............................................................. 54 Table 33: Example of EGMA Timed Task Scores .............................................................................................. 54 Table 34: Complete EGRA Item Statistics by Grade for Kashmore ................................................................ 55 Table 35: Complete EGMA Item Statistics by Grade for Kashmore ............................................................... 56 Table 36: Distribution of Students By Primary Language Spoken At Home .................................................. 60 Table 37: Distribution of Students Speaking the Same Language at Home as the Test ............................... 60 Table 38: Average EGRA/EGMA Scores by Reading Material at Home ....................................................... 61 Table 39: Percentage of students by Stories Read Aloud to Student at Home................................................ 61 Table 40: Average EGRA/EGMA Scores by Practice Reading Stories Aloud to Someone at Home........ 62 Table 41: Average EGRA/EGMA Scores by Silent Reading at Home ............................................................ 62 Table 42: Average EGRA/EGMA Scores by Read Quran at Home ............................................................... 62 Table 43: Average EGRA/EGMA Scores by Study or Complete Classwork With Classmates .................. 63 SRP BASELINE REPORT, SINDH PROVINCE, KASHMORE DISTRICT-USAID SINDH SEPTEMBER 2015 iii Table 44: Average EGRA/EGMA Scores by students Missing School Days During the Previous