Improving instruction and reading outcomes by enabling teachers to submit student reading test data immediately using mobile phones
Project Name
Improved Collection and Use of Student Reading Performance Data (BasaPilipinas)
Location Implemented
Philippines
Technology Used
Communications Technology, Data
Competition Entered
Grant Competition 2011
Reading Skill Targeted
Reading Environment
Status
Winner
Collaborators/Partners
The Challenge
In the Philippines, the Department of Education still uses a paper and pencil data collection system that produces results 12-18 months after testing. This delay means data is received too late to provide ministry staff and teachers timely, relevant information about student performance and the quality of instruction.
The Big Idea
This project provided innovative and affordable mobile technology that enables teachers (85.7% percent of which are active mobile phone users) to submit on-the-spot student reading performance test data from their classrooms to a Department of Education-administered database via mobile phones using SMS technology.
Results
Initially, the project involved 900 teachers, school heads, and district supervisors from 50 public elementary schools in Mindanao. Based on its success, it expanded to EDC’s much larger USAID Philippines Basa Pilipinas (Read Philippines!) project. In February 2014, more than 1,400 grade 3 teachers were trained on the system.
Blogs and Media
Research and Resources
Youth Volunteers Can Contribute To Significant Reading Gains: Evidence From The HYVALL Project In Senegal
ACR GCD-funded Education Development Center shares results of the "Harnessing Youth Volunteers as Literacy Leaders" project in Senegal on children's reading fluency and comprehension.Education Development Center / Yvette Tan
Education Development Center shares their ACR GCD-funded innovation to provide edtech that enables teachers to submit student reading data to a Department of Education database in the Philippines.USAID the Catalog
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