SHARE Ghana Transition-to-English Plus (T2E+) Impact Evaluation, Endline Report

Strong reading skills are critical to success in school. However, reading performance among early grade learners in Ghana has been persistently weak. Improving reading outcomes has become a central policy goal in Ghana. The Transition-to-English Plus Activity (T2E+) was one relevant intervention effort working towards this goal. From July 2021 to March 2023, T2E+ provided children in Kindergarten to Basic 3 (B3) grade levels in 5,425 public primary schools across 16 regions in Ghana with a multilingual education program. The program bolstered children’s English reading skills by first teaching them transferable language and reading skills in their mother tongue. This component of the mother-tongue instruction began in September 2021, and was followed by English language instruction in January 2022. USAID Ghana commissioned the USAID-funded Supporting Holistic and Actionable Research in Education (SHARE) mechanism to conduct impact assessment and potentially advocate for an expansion of T2E+. This project was led by the University of Notre Dame (UND) and its local partners - the University of Development Studies (UDS) Ghana and Resilient Africa Network (RAN). In assessing impact, several core components of the T2E+ Activity were analyzed.