Documents et rapports
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Textbook development in low income countries : a guide for policy and practice (anglais)
Since 2003, over 220 million books have been distributed in primary schools in global partnership for education (GPE) countries. Despite this, a few years ago, a World Bank study highlighted the fact that...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 87300 Date du document: 1 janvier 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Crabbe,Richard A. B.,Nyingi,Mary,Abadzi,Helen
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Raising literacy from 20 percent to 80 percent? : A science-based strategy for GPE partner countries (anglais)
Governments and donors have been working hard to develop efficient learning programs and resolve the learning crisis. Scientific lessons have already been implemented in a few countries. Global Partnership...
Numéro du rapport: 79775 Date du document: 30 mai 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Abadzi,Helen
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Raising literacy from 20 percent to 80 percent? : A science-based strategy for GPE partner countries : Faire passer le taux d'alphabetisation de 20 a 80 pourcentage : une strategie d'innovation basee sur la science pour les pays du partenariat mondial pour l'education (français)
Governments and donors have been working hard to develop efficient learning programs and resolve the learning crisis. Scientific lessons have already been implemented in a few countries. Global Partnership...
Numéro du rapport: 79775 Date du document: 30 mai 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Abadzi,Helen
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Literacy for all in 100 days? A research-based strategy for fast progress in low-income countries (anglais)
In low-income countries many students are marginalized very early and remain illiterate. In grades 1-3 they attend rarely, though they may officially drop out in grade 4. Many others graduate from primary...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 79785 Date du document: 30 mai 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Abadzi,Helen
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Literacy for all in 100 days? A research-based strategy for fast progress in low-income countries : L'alphabetisation pour tous en 100 jours? Une strategie basee sur la recherche pour obtenir des progres rapides dans les pays à faible revenu (français)
In low-income countries many students are marginalized very early and remain illiterate. In grades 1-3 they attend rarely, though they may officially drop out in grade 4. Many others graduate from primary...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 79785 Date du document: 21 mai 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Abadzi,Helen
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Visual and linguistic factors in literacy acquisition : instructional implications for beginning readers in low-income countries (anglais)
Improving the quality of literacy teaching may require intervening at different levels, for example, encouraging school attendance and optimizing textbook format and teaching methods. Reading is a complex...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 79779 Date du document: 1 janvier 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Abadzi,Helen,Marinelli,Chiara Valeria,Martelli,Marialuisa,Praphamontripong,Prachayani,Zoccolotti,Pierluigi
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How to speed up Arabic literacy for lower-income students? : some insights from cognitive neuroscience (anglais)
Students in low-income countries often have trouble learning to read; 80-90 percent of second and third graders in some countries cannot even read a single word and may know few if any letters (RTI 2009...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 79784 Date du document: 20 novembre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Abadzi,Helen
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Effective teacher training in low-income countries : the power of observational learning research (anglais)
The Education for All (EFA) initiative depends on students being taught by suitably and sufficiently trained teachers. But time-on-task studies conducted in low-income countries show that relatively little...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 79777 Date du document: 1 novembre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Abadzi,Helen
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Developing cross-language metrics for reading fluency measurement : some issues and options (anglais)
Since 2005, over 70 oral reading fluency tests have been given in many languages and scripts, either as part of the Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) or as individual one-minute tests. Particularly...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 79774 Date du document: 10 juillet 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Abadzi,Helen
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Reading fluency measurements in EFA FTI partner countries : outcomes and improvement prospects (anglais)
Students in lower-income countries often acquire limited literacy in school and often drop out illiterate. For those who stay, the problem is not detected until it is too late to intervene. Oral reading...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 79778 Date du document: 1 septembre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Abadzi,Helen
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Nepal - Country program evaluation, 2003-2008 (anglais)
This report evaluates International Development Association (IDA) support to Nepal during 2003-2008. IDA’s overarching goal during this period was to support the Government’s efforts to reduce poverty...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 100007 Date du document: 1 janvier 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Leroy-Themeze,Claude M.L.,Abadzi,Helen,Gopal,Gita,Johda, Narpat,Johnson,Richard John Roberts
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Learning essentials for international education a compendium of summaries (anglais)
The sound of children's voices reciting in unison could be heard from afar, as our mission approached a school in rural Cambodia. Inside a second-grade classroom, students took turns at the blackboard...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 79776 Date du document: 23 mars 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Abadzi,Helen
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The World Bank research observer 24 (2) (anglais)
This issue includes the following: Aggregate economic shocks, child schooling, and child health by Francisco H. G. Ferreira and Norbert Schady; the regulation of entry: asurvey by Simeon Djankov; how relevant...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 62986 Date du document: 1 août 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Abadzi,Helen,Deininger,Klaus W.,Djankov,Simeon,Feder,Gershon,Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Jimenez,Emmanuel Y.,Ravallion,Martin,Schady,Norbert Rudiger
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Instructional time loss in developing countries : concepts, measurement, and implications (anglais)
Students in developing countries are often taught for only a fraction of the intended number of school hours. Time is often wasted due to informal school closures, teacher absenteeism, delays, early departures...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 76795 Date du document: 10 juillet 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Abadzi,Helen
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Absenteeism and beyond : instructional time loss and consequences (anglais)
Studies have shown that learning outcomes are related to the amount of time students engage in learning tasks. However, visits to schools have revealed that students are often taught for only a fraction...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4376 Date du document: 1 octobre 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Abadzi,Helen
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Efficient learning for the poor : insights from the frontier of cognitive neuroscience (anglais)
This book integrates research into applications that extend from preschool brain development to the memory of adult educators. In layman's terms, it provides explanations and answers to questions such...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 36619 Date du document: 20 juin 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Abadzi,Helen
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Increasing adult literacy: a focus on reading speed and accuracy (anglais)
Almost one billion people worldwide cannot read, despite increased primary education enrollments. Literacy is essential to meet the Millennium Development Goals. Further, one of the objectives of the Education...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 37708 Date du document: 30 septembre 2005 Auteur: Abadzi,Helen
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Adult literacy : a review of implementation experience (anglais)
Worldwide, nearly a billion adults, at least 600 million of them women, are illiterate. Adult literacy is highly relevant to poverty alleviation efforts worldwide, because in the 21st century much of the...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 29387 Date du document: 15 septembre 2003 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Abadzi,Helen
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Improving adult literacy outcomes : lessons from cognitive research for developing countries (anglais)
Despite the existence of about one billion illiterates in the world, adult literacy programs make up 1-5 percent of government or donor budgets, and they remain severely underfunded in comparison to primary...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 26286 Date du document: 30 juin 2003 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Abadzi,Helen
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Teaching adults to read better and faster : results from an experiment in Burkina Faso (anglais)
Two cognitively oriented methods were tested in Burkina Faso to help illiterates learn to read more efficiently. These were (a) speeded reading of increasingly larger word units and (b) phonological awareness...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3057 Date du document: 31 mai 2003 Auteur: Abadzi,Helen