Early Grade Reading Assessment and Early Grade Mathematics Assessment.
EGRA / EGMA
Foundational reading skills (letter-sound knowledge, phonemic awareness, familiar-word and invented-word reading, oral reading fluency, listening and reading comprehension) and foundational numeracy (number identification, quantity discrimination, missing number, addition and subtraction, word problems) in the early primary grades.
- Provisionally grouped under
- Length and format
- Typically 6 to 8 timed EGRA subtasks and around 6 EGMA subtasks, adapted per language and country. individually administered oral one-to-one assessment with timed subtasks (performance/ability test)
- Language versions
- Adapted into 100+ languages across 70+ countries, each through a formal adaptation-workshop protocol.
- Licence
- public-domain / open
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- Reference
- RTI International (2015). Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) Toolkit, Second Edition. Prepared for USAID under the Education Data for Decision Making (EdData II) project.
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