DevelopingtheMICSsurveyofearlyskills

ManuelCardosoNovember3rd,2015

Plan

1.  MICS(Mul;pleIndicatorsClusterSurvey)

2.  Surveyofearlyskills:Ra;onale

3.  Surveyofearlyskills:Acollabora;veeffort

4.  ThecontextofLearning5.  TheReadingtasks6.  TheNumberstasks7.  Nextsteps

Mul;pleIndicatorsClusterSurvey

•  Household-based•  20years,5rounds,108countries,282surveys•  Children:Development,Nutri;on,Protec;on,Health,Mortality•  Adults:Reproduc;veHealth,HIV/AIDSandSexualBehaviour,

AccesstoMassMediaandUseofICT,Subjec;veWell-Being,TobaccoandAlcoholUse

•  Bothchildrenandadults:Educa;on,WaterandSanita;on

Ra:onale

•  Inclusionofout-of-schoolchildren

•  EquityissuesexploredwithwealthofMICShouseholddata

•  AsimilarinstrumentadministeredacrossMICScountries

Acollabora:veeffort

Mee;ngsinlate2014andmid-2015:•  ASER:household-basedassessment•  GMR•  GPE•  RTI:EGMA•  SavetheChildren:LiteracyBoost•  UNESCOIns;tuteforSta;s;cs•  Individualexperts

Thecontextoflearning

•  Parentalpar;cipa;on(Respondent:parent)– Readingmaterialsathome– Parentalinvolvementinschool

•  Learningenvironment(Respondent:child)– Learning:readingbyandtothechild;oralstorytelling;helpwithstudiesandhomework

– Languages:homelanguage;meansofinstruc;on;preferredlanguageforreadingandmathtasks

Reading

Shortstory(≈60-70Englishwords)1.  Oralreadingaccuracy(>=90%wordscorrect)

Readingcomprehension2.  Literalcomprehension(2ques;ons)3.  Inferen;alcomprehension(1ques;on)

4.  Overallindicator

Notmeasured:orallanguageskills;precursorskills;fluency;otherformsofcomprehension(evalua;ve,summary)

Numbers

1.  Numberreading(6items)2.  Numberdiscrimina;on(5items)3.  Addi;on(5items)4.  Pahernrecogni;on&comple;on(5items)5.  OverallindicatorNotmeasured:oralquan;ta;veskills;shapeandspace;probabilityanddata

Nextsteps

•  Pre-testinGhana(Nov2015)basedonEGRA/EGMAtools

•  FieldtestinBelize(Nov-Dec2015)•  Concurrentvaliditystudy(early2016,countryTBD)

•  Ar;cleco-wrihenwithAmyJoDowd(SavetheChildren)forvolumeonoralassessmentsofreading(UIS/GPE/Hewleh)

Thankyou!mcardoso@unicef.org