Early Grade Reading Assessment and Early Grade Mathematics Assessment

EARC provided local support (including coordinating, capacity building and monitoring test administration activities in the field) to Research Triangle Institute International (USA) in implementing the USAID funded Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) and Early Grade Mathematics Assessment (EGMA) under the project USAID/Ghana’s Partnership in Education: TESTING EdData II.

The Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) is an oral student assessment designed to measure the most basic foundation skills for literacy acquisition in the early grades i.e., recognizing letters of the alphabet, reading simple words, understanding sentences and paragraphs, and listening with comprehension. The Early Grade Math Assessment (EGMA) is an oral assessment designed to measure a student's foundation skills in numeracy and mathematics in the early grades i.e., number identification, quantity discrimination, missing-number identification, word problem solving, addition and subtraction, shape recognition, and pattern extension.

The EGRA and EGMA, adapted into 11 different local languages including English, were administered nationwide to Primary 2 pupils.