Monitoring Learning Achievement (MLA) is an assessment of pupil achievement conducted for the Uganda Initiative for TDMS and PIASCY (UNITY) Project funded by USAID. The purpose of the MLA is to determine the extent to which pupil learning has increased with the implementation of the new primary school curriculum launched in 2007. The first MLA was conducted in 2007, when the UNITY Project, in collaboration with UNEB, NCDC, and the MoES, tested pupils in 4 regions, 2 districts per region, to create a baseline in language and maths at the P2 level - the last year in which the old English medium curriculum was used at that level. Subsequent tests were conducted in the same schools and additional ones in 2008 and 2009. Specifically, the MLA 2009 measured the following dimensions of pupils’ achievement: i) P4 achievement in literacy and numeracy in English – this measure was to serve as a baseline. ii) P3 achievement in literacy and numeracy in local language, as a follow up to the baseline taken in 2008. iii) Progress in literacy and numeracy achievement in English for pupils from 2007 (P2) to 2009 (P4) – i.e., a panel design following “cohort 1” during the last years of the use of English as the medium of instruction. iv) Progress in literacy and numeracy achievement in local language for from 2008 (P2) to 2009 (P3) - i.e., a panel design following “cohort 2,” the first group to study under the new curriculum in local language. This report summarizes the results of the 2009 MLA.
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