Designing for Scale: Reflections on Rolling Out Reading Improvement in Kenya and Liberia

Resource type
Journal Article
Authors/contributors
Title
Designing for Scale: Reflections on Rolling Out Reading Improvement in Kenya and Liberia
Abstract
Since 2008, the Ministries of Education in Liberia and Kenya have undertaken transitions from small-scale pilot programs to improve reading outcomes among primary learners to the large-scale implementation of reading interventions. The effects of the pilots on learning outcomes were significant, but questions remained regarding whether such large gains could be sustained at scale. In this article, the authors dissect the Liberian and Kenyan experiences with implementing large-scale reading programs, documenting the critical components and conditions of the program designs that affected the likelihood of successfully transitioning from pilot to scale. They also review the design, deployment, and effectiveness of each pilot program and the scale, design, duration, enabling conditions, and initial effectiveness results of the scaled programs in each country. The implications of these results for the design of both pilot and large-scale reading programs are discussed in light of the experiences of both the Liberian and Kenyan programs.
Publication
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development
Volume
2017
Issue
155
Pages
77-95
Date
2017
Language
en
ISSN
1534-8687
Short Title
Designing for Scale
Accessed
17/01/2020, 17:56
Library Catalogue
Wiley Online Library
Rights
© 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Extra
shortDOI: 10/ggkzrw
Citation
Gove, A., Poole, M. K., & Piper, B. (2017). Designing for Scale: Reflections on Rolling Out Reading Improvement in Kenya and Liberia. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2017(155), 77–95. https://doi.org/10.1002/cad.20195