Identifying the essential ingredients to literacy and numeracy improvement: Teacher professional development and coaching, student textbooks, and structured teachers’ guides B Piper, SS Zuilkowski, M Dubeck, E Jepkemei, SJ King World Development 106, 324-336, 2018 | 201 | 2018 |
Building back better to avert a learning catastrophe: Estimating learning loss from COVID-19 school shutdowns in Africa and facilitating short-term and long-term learning recovery N Angrist, A de Barros, R Bhula, S Chakera, C Cummiskey, J DeStefano, ... International Journal of Educational Development 84, 102397, 2021 | 173 | 2021 |
Improving reading outcomes in Kenya: First-year effects of the PRIMR Initiative B Piper, SS Zuilkowski, A Mugenda International Journal of Educational Development 37, 11-21, 2014 | 156 | 2014 |
Oral reading fluency and comprehension in Kenya: Reading acquisition in a multilingual environment B Piper, L Schroeder, B Trudell Journal of Research in Reading 39 (2), 133-152, 2016 | 137 | 2016 |
Implementing mother tongue instruction in the real world: Results from a medium-scale randomized controlled trial in Kenya B Piper, SS Zuilkowski, S Ong’ele Comparative Education Review 60 (4), 776-807, 2016 | 124 | 2016 |
Does technology improve reading outcomes? Comparing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of ICT interventions for early grade reading in Kenya B Piper, SS Zuilkowski, D Kwayumba, C Strigel International Journal of Educational Development 49, 204-214, 2016 | 122 | 2016 |
Scaling up successfully: Lessons from Kenya’s Tusome national literacy program B Piper, J Destefano, EM Kinyanjui, S Ong’ele Journal of Educational Change 19, 293-321, 2018 | 118 | 2018 |
EGRA Plus: Liberia. Program Evaluation Report. B Piper, M Korda RTI international, 2011 | 117 | 2011 |
Teacher coaching in Kenya: Examining instructional support in public and nonformal schools B Piper, SS Zuilkowski Teaching and Teacher Education 47, 173-183, 2015 | 115 | 2015 |
Whatever the law says: Language policy implementation and early-grade literacy achievement in Kenya B Trudell, B Piper Current Issues in Language Planning 15 (1), 4-21, 2014 | 115 | 2014 |
Parents, quality, and school choice: Why parents in Nairobi choose low-cost private schools over public schools in Kenya’s free primary education era SS Zuilkowski, B Piper, S Ong’ele, O Kiminza Oxford Review of Education 44 (2), 258-274, 2018 | 100 | 2018 |
Mother tongue and reading: Using early grade reading assessments to investigate language-of-instruction policy in East Africa B Piper, E Miksic The early grade reading assessment: Application and intervention to improve …, 2011 | 82 | 2011 |
Cross-language transfer of reading skills: An empirical investigation of bidirectionality and the influence of instructional environments YSG Kim, B Piper Reading and writing 32 (4), 839-871, 2019 | 79 | 2019 |
Examining the secondary effects of mother-tongue literacy instruction in Kenya: Impacts on student learning in English, Kiswahili, and mathematics B Piper, SS Zuilkowski, D Kwayumba, A Oyanga International Journal of Educational Development 59, 110-127, 2018 | 79 | 2018 |
Kenya's ICT Policy in Practice: The Effectiveness of Tablets and E-Readers in Improving Student Outcomes. B Piper, E Jepkemei, D Kwayumba, K Kibukho FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education 2 (1), 3-18, 2015 | 77 | 2015 |
Measuring executive function skills in young children in Kenya: Associations with school readiness MT Willoughby, B Piper, A Oyanga, K Merseth King Developmental Science 22 (5), e12818, 2019 | 64 | 2019 |
Early grade literacy in African classrooms: Lessons learned and future directions B Trudell, AJ Dowd, B Piper, C Bloch Triennale Meeting, Association for the Development of Education in Africa …, 2012 | 53 | 2012 |
Is ‘summer’reading loss universal? Using ongoing literacy assessment in Malawi to estimate the loss from grade-transition breaks TS Slade, B Piper, Z Kaunda, S King, H Ibrahim Research in Comparative and International Education 12 (4), 461-485, 2017 | 49 | 2017 |
Measuring executive function skills in young children in Kenya MT Willoughby, B Piper, D Kwayumba, M McCune Child Neuropsychology 25 (4), 425-444, 2019 | 48 | 2019 |
Uganda early grade reading assessment findings report: Literacy acquisition and mother tongue B Piper Makerere Institute for Social Research, 2010 | 48 | 2010 |