Using ODK for EGRA Data Collection

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Max Heinritz (http://twitter.com/maxheinritz) has implemented an Early
Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) system using ODK.

EGRA is an education evaluation instrument used to measure student
literacy in developing countries. The test is administered by trained
enumerators who assess samples of students at multiple schools.
Results are currently recorded on paper and then manually digitized
when enumerators return from fieldwork. With the ICT system introduced
here, results would instead be recorded on mobile phones and
transmitted over the Internet.

Matt has put all the resources from his project (including papers,
talks, user guides, demo videos and analysis scripts) at
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~heinritz/ict4egra.

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Just wanted to say a public kudos to Max who I've had the fortune of
meeting.

I think this provides a great example of the value of creating new apps that
are primarily xform/content driven. Neal Lesh's IMCI module is another good
example.

It creates the potential for tremendous reuse. We might want to start
thinking about a common repository for these "xform apps" in the future. As
ODK's features improve this will become even more pertinent.

Thanks,

Matt

··· On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Yaw Anokwa wrote:

Max Heinritz (http://twitter.com/maxheinritz) has implemented an Early
Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) system using ODK.

EGRA is an education evaluation instrument used to measure student
literacy in developing countries. The test is administered by trained
enumerators who assess samples of students at multiple schools.
Results are currently recorded on paper and then manually digitized
when enumerators return from fieldwork. With the ICT system introduced
here, results would instead be recorded on mobile phones and
transmitted over the Internet.

Matt has put all the resources from his project (including papers,
talks, user guides, demo videos and analysis scripts) at
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~heinritz/ict4egra.

http://opendatakit.org/2011/04/using-odk-for-egra-data-collection

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Hi @yanokwa and @Matt_Berg; I'm starting up a study that will apply EGRA -- and was looking to see how this was designed previously in xlsxform (and other resources Max may have applied). Max's link at Penn is not available anymore, and Max's twitter is also no longer up and working. Do either of you have these resources or a link I can find them (or Max's email that you could DM me)?

Thanks for any support/leads.

~Lloyd

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Hi Lloyd,

Do you remember Max last name?

Thanks,

Matt

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You can find Max at http://maxheinritz.com

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Thanks Yaw! Didn't realize till now the original post was 7 (!!) years ago.

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Hi all, What's new or updates on EGRA using ODK? I've tried this in 2017 and the one of the limitations we encountered at that time was the integration of time in the form specially in passage reading but instead we used separate time device.

Thank you,