Literacy Boost Metro Manila Endline Report March 2015

This report examines the results of a learner background survey and reading assessment conducted in Metro Manila prior to beginning the Literacy Boost intervention and again after a year of implementation. The baseline survey and reading assessment covered 940 Grade 2 learners in two schools in Caloocan North, 500 from 25 sections of an intervention school and 440 from 22 sections of a control school. The follow up gathered data again from 754 of these children. The intervention school received Literacy Boost and the comparison school received no intervention.

This report explores: the comparability of the learners in Literacy Boost and comparison schools at endline, the skills profiles at endline and gains from the baseline, equity in learning by gender, poverty, home literacy and other characteristics. The findings will inform targeting of further intervention.