Tout Timoun Ap Li (ToTAL), All Children Reading: Final Report, August 2012 to December 2014 (Revised)
- The project ran in more than 300 schools: 150 in the Cap-Haïtien corridor, 50 in Saint-Marc and 150 in Port-au-Prince.
- Students exposed to ToTAL showed statistically significant gains over control-group students in phonemic awareness and letter sound knowledge.
- Teachers spent 26% of lesson time on phonemic awareness tasks, compared with 8% designated in the ToTAL lessons.
- By the end of grade 2 most students still lacked speed or accuracy in letter name knowledge and decoding, and had limited listening comprehension and oral vocabulary.
- Girls significantly outperformed boys on all skills except invented word decoding and word dictation.
- Adding community mobilization to Treatment B schools did not produce differential gains, and differences between Treatment A and B favored Treatment A.
The ToTAL project assisted the Ministry of Education in developing and testing an instructional model to improve reading in grades 1 to 3 in USAID/Haiti development corridors. It worked in more than 300 schools, 150 in the Cap-Haïtien corridor, 50 in Saint-Marc and 150 in Port-au-Prince, and compared Treatment A schools (reading program, materials, teacher training and support), Treatment B schools (the same plus community reading activities) and control schools. The report sets out results on research launch, capacity assessment and student reading performance measured with the Early Grade Reading Assessment and the Snapshot of School Management Effectiveness.
It finds large and statistically significant gains over control schools in phonemic awareness and letter sound knowledge, but by the end of grade 2 most students still lacked speed or accuracy in letter name knowledge and decoding. The community mobilization component did not produce added gains, and the report recommends partnering with the Ministry instead of FONHEP on large-scale projects.
How to cite
RTI International; United States Agency for International Development (USAID), 2015, Tout Timoun Ap Li (ToTAL), All Children Reading: Final Report, August 2012 to December 2014 (Revised), accessed via HaitiDocs, https://www.haitidocs.org/doc/rti-2015-total-final-report
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