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The Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) Plus: Liberia Program (2008-2011)

Beginning in 2008, following a World Bank-funded EGRA in Liberia, RTI and the Liberian Education Trust developed and introduced teaching and learning materials, teacher training and support, classroom-based assessment, and strategies to improve time on task. The evidence-based approach was tested in grades 2 and 3 under a rigorously designed randomized controlled trial (RCT). After 18 months, students in the "full" treatment group outperformed their peers in all reading skills, nearly tripling the gains made by the control group in oral reading fluency and reading comprehension. The full treatment group also increased sevenfold their fluency in reading non-words (e.g., "wub" in English). EGRA: Plus had a particularly large impact on improving children's decoding-the ability to break new words into sounds and link them together-a key to unlock fluency and comprehension. The full treatment group improved in reading fluency four-and-a-half times faster and in reading comprehension five times faster than the control group, accelerating children's learning at the equivalent of three years of school in one year. The program is expanding to 1,600 schools under the USAID-supported Liberia Teacher Training Program.

Project ID

US-GOV-1-AID-EHC-E-06-04-00004

Activity status

2 - Implementation

Aid type

C01 - Project-type interventions

% to Liberia

100.00

Organisations

Accountable

U.S. Agency for International Development

Extending

U.S. Agency for International Development

Funding

U.S. Agency for International Development

Implementing

RTI International

CRS code	%
Primary education (11220)	100.0