The Early Grade Reading Assessment: Assessing children's acquisition of basic literacy skills in developing countries (superseded version)

Authors

Australian Council for Educational Research

Publication Date

3-2014

Subjects

Literacy, Student assessment, Reading tests, Early reading, Measurement, Developing countries, National programs, Educational policy, Early childhood education

Comments

Assessment GEMs no.2

This Assessment GEM was updated in 2020. The updated version is available here.

Abstract

The Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA), administered individually in about 15 minutes, measures the most basic foundation skills for literacy acquisition in the early grades. The assessment was developed by the Research Triangle Institute (RTI) through funding provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the World Bank (Gove & Wetterberg, 2011), in addition to resources provided by RTI. The EGRA was developed to provide a battery of assessments of basic reading skills for developing countries to monitor the status of early reading in primary schools. The assessment tool was first implemented in The Gambia and Senegal in 2007 (Gove & Wetterberg, 2011). Since then, the reading assessment methodology has been adapted for use in more than 60 countries, in 100 languages, as of March 2014.

Recommended Citation

Australian Council for Educational Research. (2014). The Early Grade Reading Assessment: Assessing children's acquisition of basic literacy skills in developing countries (superseded version). Australian Council for Educational Research. https://research.acer.edu.au/assessgems/2

Copyright Statement

Copyright Australian Council for Educational Research 2014

Place of Publication

Camberwell, Australia

Publisher

Australian Council for Educational Research

ISSN

2203-9406