Multi-Country Studies To date, SHARE has launched seven multi-country studies to develop education policy recommendations with the potential for broader impact through translation to other settings. CREST (Contextually Relevant Emotional and Social Well-being Tools) researches contextually appropriate measures of children’s socio-emotional learning skills and teachers’ well-being grounded in the perspectives of teachers, children, and caregivers. Countries: Colombia, Haiti, Honduras, Liberia Single-Country Studies DELITES (Deaf Education Language of Instruction Transition in Education Systems) examines the factors at the school- and classroom-level that contribute to improved signed-language and second-language literacy skills in deaf learners. Countries: Malawi, Rwanda, Philippines HEIGHTS (Higher Education Institutions Generating Holistic and Transferable Solutions) conducts research in two areas: Financial Sustainability (FS) to produce evidence-informed strategies to support greater financial sustainability in higher education institutions; and Innovation Ecosystems (IE), to explore how higher education institutions can positively impact innovation ecosystems—a network of researchers, inventors, funders, and government agencies generating and applying new knowledge. Countries: Indonesia, Kenya, Philippines LIBROS (Learning to Improve Book Operational Systems) explores the underlying conditions that improve book supply chains and identifies policy and practice pathways to strengthen primary-education-level book supply chains in low- and middle-income countries. Countries: Cambodia, Honduras, Rwanda LITES (Language of Instruction Transition in Education Systems) seeks to fill knowledge gaps in literacy acquisition by generating evidence surrounding the appropriate approach to transitioning from instruction in a child’s first language to instruction in the official language and the relationship to learners’ first- and second-language literacy skills. Countries: Philippines, Senegal, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda CREST LITES DELITES LIBROS HEIGHTS SHARE single-country studies provide highly specialized, technical research assistance to design and implement education evaluation in support of country-specific priorities. These nine studies also serve to contribute to USAID’s global learning priorities. 30 | Global Education Evidence Ecosystem Diagnostic Toolkit offers direction for planning and implementing activities to engage community members and other stakeholders. The toolkit encourages human-centered initiatives that preserve and utilize local knowledge. RELM (Receptive & Expressive Language Model) assesses important aspects of receptive and expressive language skills in students in pre-primary and early grades. The RELM examines key components of students’ linguistic abilities and how these relate to reading competency. The RELM toolkit, including an adaptation guide and training materials, will be finalized after two rounds of piloting. Global and Regional Educational Tools SHARE also produces learning products to advance global learning objectives, offering guidance to researchers and implementers in their work. Among the instruments developed for use in the education development sector around the world: Applied Education System Diagnostic Toolkit provides step-by- step guidance to support localized program design, identifying existing assumptions at the start of a project and offering mid-point assessments of an intervention’s effectiveness. This is a practical guide to assist practitioners familiar with systems thinking in applying concepts to their work.
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