Influencing the Armenian education system by developing and testing a set of informal literacy assessments to better inform future literacy instruction
Project Name
Diagnostic Instruments for Better Informed Literacy Instruction in Primary Grades (BILI)
Location Implemented
Armenia
Competition Entered
Grant Competition 2011
Reading Skill Targeted
Reading Environment
Status
Winner
Collaborators/Partners
Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking International Consortium
The Challenge
Literacy instruction in the Armenian education system remains dependent on old Soviet textbook driven systems of schooling and curriculum. Furthermore, teachers do not have relevant reading literacy assessment instruments in Armenian.
The Big Idea
This project aims to develop and field-test a set of informal literacy assessment instruments in the Armenian language for use by primary school teachers to inform literacy instruction in primary grades and develop and field-test tutoring procedures to support the literacy development of students who are reading below grade level.
Results
415 children
Blogs and Media
Research and Resources
Step by Step Benevolent / Marine Mkrtchyan
Step by Step Benevolent Foundation shares their ACR GCD-funded innovation to test literacy assessment instruments to inform literacy instruction methods in schools in Armenia.
