African Harmonised Early-Grade Assessment Dataset

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https://doi.org/10.25828/2287-mw84

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Author(s)	African Foundational Learning Data Hub (AFLEARN)
Date	2026-07-01T22:00:00.000Z
Country	South Africa
Language	English
Contributor(s)	Cally Ardington, Chifundo Kanjala, Siphiwe Bogatsu, Mikaela Ann Daries
Description	The current release represents the first stage of this long-term harmonization programme. It includes 129,141 harmonized pupil records from 24 constituent surveys, with standardized demographic, survey and study designs, and EGRA/EGMA assessment variables. Additionally, it features a mechanism to link the pooled records back to the rest of the source data, alongside a uniform, harmonised pupil identifier that provides a consistent ID system across all surveys, the details of which are expanded upon in the companion Reference Guide.
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Author(s)	African Foundational Learning Data Hub
Date	2026-07-01T22:00:00.000Z
Country	South Africa
Language	English
Contributor(s)	Cally Ardington, Chifundo Kanjala, Siphiwe Bogatsu, Mikaela Ann Daries
Description	This reference guide describes the harmonization framework developed for the African Harmonized Early-Grade Assessments Dataset (AHEAD), which combines datasets from United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) and Early Grade Mathematics Assessment (EGMA) projects conducted across Africa.
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