Promoting Development and Home Reading of Supplementary Texts for Young Readers in Cambodia 2020 - Cambodia

Abstract
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This paper provides results from the randomized control trial project, Promoting Development and Home Reading of Supplementary Texts for Young Readers in Cambodia. One control and three treatment groups were assessed on how literacy and reading habits changed when households were provided a variety of high-quality and low-cost early reading materials along with varying degrees of encouragement toward building better reading habits. The findings show that providing books in isolation was not enough. Rather, books in conjunction with a network of reading supports was found to be an effective means to boost reading outcomes, including reading proficiency measures, frequency of reading, and attitudes toward reading. The results highlight the need for at-home reading materials in poor households as an integral step to improve early reading.

Geographic coverage
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Kampong Thom Province and Battambang provinces.

Analysis unit
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Child

Mode of data collection
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Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument
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Two questionnaires (caregiver and child were used to collect the survey data. Caregiver and child questionnaires have sets of common questions in across the different visits (baseline, house visit 2, house visit 3, and endline visit). However, there are some differences depending on the type of visits. There are two types of differences:

1. Unique questions which are asked in one of the visits, but not in the others. This is because as the time passed the questions to be asked needed to be complemented or were irrelevant.

2. Differences in how the question stems were formulated. This is due to the different timing of the visits when the time passed had to be accounted for. For example, in many cases the questions in the subsequent visits had phrases like “since I last saw you” or “in the last six months”.

摘要
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本论文呈现了随机对照试验项目——柬埔寨年轻读者补充文本的促进发展与家庭阅读——的研究成果。该项目评估了一组对照试验和三组治疗试验，研究当家庭获得各类高质量、低成本早期阅读材料，并伴随不同程度的鼓励以培养良好阅读习惯时， literacy 和阅读习惯的变化情况。研究发现，单纯提供书籍是远远不够的。相反，书籍与阅读支持网络的结合被发现是提升阅读成果的有效途径，包括阅读能力衡量、阅读频率和阅读态度。这些结果突显了在贫困家庭中提供家庭阅读材料作为改善早期阅读的必要步骤。
地理覆盖范围
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贡布隆省和巴吞他尼省。
分析单元
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儿童
数据收集方式
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面对面 [f2f]
研究工具
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使用两种问卷（照料者问卷和儿童问卷）收集调查数据。照料者问卷和儿童问卷在不同访问（基线、家庭访问2、家庭访问3和终点访问）中均包含一系列共同问题。然而，根据访问类型，存在一些差异：
1. 在某些访问中提出而其他访问未提出的独特问题。这是由于随着时间的推移，需要补充或不再相关的问题。
2. 问题句式的差异。这是由于访问时间的不同，必须考虑时间的流逝。例如，在许多情况下，后续访问中的问题包含诸如“自从我上次见到你”或“在过去六个月里”之类的短语。