Scaling up Successfully: Lessons from Kenya's Tusome National Literacy Program

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Autor/inn/en	Piper, Benjamin; Destefano, Joseph; Kinyanjui, Esther M.; Ong'ele, Salome
Titel	Scaling up Successfully: Lessons from Kenya's Tusome National Literacy Program
Quelle	In: Journal of Educational Change, 19 (2018) 3, S.293-321 (29 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Piper, Benjamin)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1573-1812
DOI	10.1007/s10833-018-9325-4
Schlagwörter	Educational Change; Benchmarking; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; African Languages; Foreign Countries; Pilot Projects; Program Implementation; National Programs; Literacy Education; Scaling; Program Descriptions; Native Language; Accountability; Feedback (Response); Outcomes of Education; Classroom Observation Techniques; Kenya + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsreform; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Africa; Language; Languages; Afrika; Sprachen; Afrikanische Sprache; Ausland; Pilot project; Modellversuch; Pilotprojekt; nicht übertragen; Scale construction; Skalenkonstruktion; Verantwortung; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Kenia
Abstract	Many successful piloted programs fail when scaled up to a national level. In Kenya, which has a long history of particularly ineffective implementation after successful pilot programs, the Tusome national literacy program--which receives funding from the United States Agency for International Development--is a national-level scale-up of previous literacy and numeracy programs. We applied a scaling framework (Crouch and DeStefano in "Doing reform differently: combining rigor and practicality in implementation and evaluation of system reforms." "International development group working paper no. 2017-01," RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, 2017. https://www.rti.org/publication/doing-reform-differently-combining-rigor-and-practicality-implementation-and-evaluation) to examine whether Tusome's implementation was rolled out in ways that would enable government structures and officers to respond effectively to the new program. We found that Tusome was able to clarify expectations for implementation and outcomes nationally using benchmarks for Kiswahili and English learning outcomes, and that these expectations were communicated all the way down to the school level. We noted that the essential program inputs were provided fairly consistently, across the nation. In addition, our analyses showed that Kenya developed functional, if simple, accountability and feedback mechanisms to track performance against benchmark expectations. We also established that the Tusome feedback data were utilized to encourage greater levels of instructional support within Kenya's county level structures for education quality support. The results indicated that several of the key elements for successful scale-up were therefore put in place. However, we also discovered that Tusome failed to fully exploit the available classroom observational data to better target instructional support. In the context of this scaling framework, the Tusome literacy program's external evaluation results showed program impacts of 0.6-1.0 standard deviations on English and Kiswahili learning outcomes. The program implemented a functional classroom observational feedback system through existing government systems, although usage of those systems varied widely across Kenya. Classroom visits, even if still falling short of the desired rate, were far more frequent, were focused on instructional quality, and included basic feedback and advice to teachers. These findings are promising with respect to the ability of countries facing quality problems to implement a coherent instructional reform through government systems at scale. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01