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    Literacy Assessment and Monitoring Programme(LAMP) Update No. 2

    February 2011

    Introduction

    This update brings information on LAMP activities to a broad range of stakeholders, including,among others, countries implementing LAMP, the Global Advisory Board, experts, and donors.

    Background

    LAMP intends to enable countries to assess the literacy skills of their youth and adult population.It is based on prior standardised assessments of reading and numeracy skills (mainly theInternational Adult Literacy Surveyand theAdult Literacy and Life Skills Survey), which, thoughextremely rich, were limited to industrialised countries, European languages, the Romanalphabet, and one numeral system.

    The cultural, linguistic and institutional diversity of the LAMP contexts poses major challenges to

    the developmental work. So far, in order to validate LAMPs approach, the UIS has collaboratedwith several national teams, working in ten languages from six different families, three scriptsand two numeral systems, and conducted eight field tests in different regions: two in Latin-

    America; one in Sub-Saharan Africa; three in the Arab States; and two in Asia.

    Current Situation

    Main Survey

    Countries in Table 1 below have completed the LAMP field test and are in the process ofconducting the main assessment

    Table 1. Countries that have completed the LAMP field test

    Country Language Dates for main assessmentOccupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) Arabic March-April 2011*Morocco Arabic March-April 2011*Mongolia Mongolian Completed (Oct-Dec 2010)

    Niger

    French,Fulfulde,Hausa,Kanuri,Tamasheq,and Zarma.

    To be determined

    El Salvador Spanish To be determinedViet Nam Vietnamese To be determinedJordan Arabic In progress (February-March 2011)

    Paraguay Spanish March-April 2011(*) preliminary dates.

    The meeting of national coordinators held in August 2010 established a preliminary timeline forcountries to submit their main assessment data to the UIS by 15 May 2011. The UIS will meet allNational Project Leaders in September 2011 to discuss the preliminary results before the reportis finalised. Simultaneously, the UIS will also organise an international workshop on dataanalysis.

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    It should be noted that in parallel to the data collection in Mongolia, a systematic ethnographicstudy on it was conducted by Dr Bryan Maddox (University of East Anglia, UK). The reportcoming from these observations will be released later in 2011.

    Other countries

    In addition to countries that have already started the preliminary work on the implementation ofLAMP (Anguilla -English;, India -number of states and languages to be determined; Jamaica -

    English; Lao PDR -Lao; and Namibia -7-9 languages to be determined), Guyana has recentlyexpressed interest in the programme; and Afghanistan (Dari and Pashto) has already conductedthe first set of activities towards implementing the field test by mid-2011 and the mainassessment in late 2011-early 2012 (given the security concerns, some areas will be excluded)..

    Global Advisory Board

    The LAMP Global Advisory Board (GAB) will have a second meeting in late May 2011. Thismeeting is expected to address the following issues: (i) a general update on progress regardingthe implementation of the main assessments; (ii) gathering input to have a final annotatedoutline for the first international report; (iii) identifying issues for the LAMP research agenda.

    Other issues

    There will be a panel on LAMP at the coming Conference of the Comparative InternationalEducation Society (CIES) to be held in Montreal in early May. This panel will address thefollowing issues: (i) measuring the literate environment; (ii) applying the simple view of readingto adult readers in different orthographies (Spanish and Arabic), and (iii) the relationshipbetween the performance in Reading Components tasks and in the reading prose domain.