Ghana 2015: early grade reading assessment and early grade mathematics assessment: report of findings

The National Education Assessment Unit (NEAU) of the Ghana Education Service (GES) conducted a national Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) and Early Grade Mathematics Assessment
(EGMA) in July 2015. This was the second administration of EGRA and EGMA in Ghana; the first took place in 2013, and both were conducted as part of the USAID Partnership for Education: Testing activity. Unlike other testing approaches in Ghana, such as the National Education Assessment (NEA), the EGRA and EGMA were administered orally by an assessor to a single pupil, rather than being paper-and-pencil, multiple-choice test administered to an entire class of pupils. The purpose of the EGRA and EGMA is to provide data about the current state of reading and mathematics performance among a population of interest. In Ghana, this was Primary 2 (P2) pupils in public schools. The data collected are useful for informing stakeholder decisions about policy and practice.