J&A presents USAID Guatemala LifeLong Learning Project at Global Reading Network webinar

During the Global Reading Network’s Early grade reading benchmarks: Methods, experience and future directions webinar on 27 June 2018, Leslie Rosales from Juárez & Associates’ Guatemala office presented USAID LifeLong Learning Project’s experience on establishing a fluency benchmark using a regression discontinuity approach. Establishing benchmarks is part of a longitudinal study about learning to read in the early grades that the USAID LLL project conducted in the Western Highlands of Guatemala. Specifically, the benchmark of fluency presented by Dr. Rosales in her lecture “A regression discontinuity approach to find a fluency benchmark for second grade” takes the part of the expected trajectory of learning to read in the mother tongue in bilingual settings of Guatemala (Mayan or Spanish languages). A total of 113 people participated in the webinar in-person and virtually. The virtual session included materials from the specialists as well as a lively question and answer session. The Global Reading Network brings together international development agencies, teachers’ associations, practitioners, governments, academics, civil society organizations, donor organizations, UN agencies and other stakeholders.