Zambia is facing a learning crisis: although ever more learners attend school, many don’t learn. Many learners fail to acquire foundational literacy and numeracy skills. These learners nonetheless progress through primary education and the gap between what learners know and what they are supposed to know based on the grade they are in increases year-after-year.
While teachers are aware of this, they stick to the curriculum as they lack the time and competences to adapt their teaching to the level of the child. Remedial teaching is needed to provide those learners with an opportunity to catch up.
Government staff provide effective mentorship and support to teachers and school leaders in government and community schools, so they can assess and teach basic literacy and numeracy skills to grade 3 to 5 learners in the framework of remedial Catch Up lessons.
- Ministry of General Education (MoE)
- Teaching at the Right Level Africa
- The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL)
- Pratham
The KIX Research and Learning Advisor oversees research activities under the learning agenda for Zambia’s Teaching at the Right Level/Catch Up programmes. This includes working to design and manage research and evaluations applying quantitative, qualitative and mixed-method approaches.
By the end of the project:
- materials, tools, methodology, sampling will have been developed and preparations will have been put in place for the randomised impact evaluation that will start with a baseline in late 2022 in Western and Central provinces
