Browsing Helen Abadzi, Ph.D. by Title
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How to speed up Arabic literacy for lower-income students? Some insights from cognitive neuroscience.
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Improving adult literacy outcomes: lessons from cognitive research for developing countries
(World Bank, 2003)Abstract Despite the existence of about one billion illiterates in the world, adult literacy programs make up 1-5 percent of government or donor budgets, and they remain severely underfunded in comparison to primary ... -
Instructional time loss in developing countries : concepts, measurement, and implications
(World Bank, 2009)Students in developing countries are often taught for only a fraction of the intended number of school hours. Time is often wasted due to informal school closures, teacher absenteeism, delays, early departures, and poor ... -
Literacy for all in 100 days? A research based strategy for fast progress in low income countries
(World Bank, 2013)In low-income countries many students are marginalized very early and remain illiterate. In grades 1-3 they attend rarely, though they may officially drop out in grade 4. Many others graduate from primary school without ... -
A Model for a Magnet Program Which Promotes Both High Achievement and Voluntary Integration
(April 1984)In order to provide high quality specialized instruction and to achieve voluntary integration, a magnet program was developoed in the Fort Worth (Texas) Independent School District.The program is in its third year. of ... -
Reading fluency measurements in EFA FTI partner countries : outcomes and improvement prospects
(World Bank, 2011)Students in lower-income countries often acquire limited literacy in school and often drop out illiterate. For those who stay, the problem is not detected until it is too late to intervene. Oral reading fluency tests given ... -
Strategies and policies for literacy
(UNESCO, 2004-05-31)Executive Summary Despite the existence of about one billion illiterates in the world, adult literacy programs make up 1–5 percent of government or donor budgets, and they remain severely underfunded in comparison to ... -
Teaching adults to read better and faster: results from an experiment in Burkina Faso
(World Bank, 2003)Abstract Two cognitively oriented methods were tested in Burkina Faso to help illiterates learn to read more efficiently. These were (a) speeded reading of increasingly larger word units and (b) phonological awareness ... -
A Texas city magnet program: 1981-82 evaluation materials and results
(Fort Worth Independent School District, Texas. Department of Research and Evaluation, 1984)In order to promote voluntary integration in two high schools and a middle school, the Fort Worth Independent School District in Texas developed a magnet program that offers specialized curricula: engineering at the all ... -
Visual and linguistic factors in literacy acquisition: Instructional implication for beginning readers in low income countries
(World Bank, 2013)Improving the quality of literacy teaching may require intervening at different levels, for example, encouraging school attendance and optimizing textbook format and teaching methods. Reading is a complex task involving ... -
What we know about acquisition of adult literacy: is there hope?
(The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World BankDepartment of Education Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, June 1994)Literacy acquired in childhood positively influences quality of life, but the effects of literacy acquired in adulthood are not well known. Experience shows that literacy is not easily disseminated to adults and that the ... -
Why we need ancient Greek and how to remember it: Comparisons between Greece and South Asia
(Department of Education Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 1994)