Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) Baseline, Saut d'Eau, Haiti
- Average reading fluency of grade 3 children in Creole is 9.6 correct words per minute, 7.6 for girls and 11.3 for boys.
- Scores progress from grade to grade on every subtask, but too slowly: children take up to six years to learn basic pre-reading skills.
- Letter naming stays below 50 correct letters per minute until grade 5 or 6, and more than half of grade 2 and 3 students scored zero on initial sound recognition.
- Scores were marginally higher in French than in Creole on the early subtasks, which indicates that the limited instruction children receive focuses on French.
- The age range is skewed: 74% of grade 3 students tested were more than two years older than the official age.
Concern Worldwide ran this Early Grade Reading Assessment in November and December 2012 as the education baseline for its Multi-Sectoral Rural Development Programme in Saut d'Eau, funded by Irish Aid and the Kellogg's Foundation. The baseline covers 12 supported schools, and the programme will extend to 30 schools in 2013.
Children in grades 1 to 6 were tested individually on nine subtasks in Creole and French, with results reported by sex and grade. The main outcome indicator is reading fluency in Creole in grade 3, which averages 9.6 correct words per minute, 7.6 for girls and 11.3 for boys. Scores on all subtasks were very low, and children took up to six years to learn pre-reading skills that should be mastered in the first one or two years.
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Concern Worldwide, 2013, Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) Baseline, Saut d'Eau, Haiti, accessed via HaitiDocs, https://www.haitidocs.org/doc/concern-2013-egra-baseline-saut-d-eau
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