A user-friendly EGMA template for field teams
Use the Early Grade Mathematics Assessment (EGMA) to effectively assess children’s math skills using SurveyCTO’s digital EGMA template.
This EGMA template empowers teams to administer this important educational assessment without compromise in offline, low-tech settings, customizing it to meet the unique needs of the children you work with.
What's in this EGMA template
The Early Grade Mathematics Assessment (EGMA) is a toolkit created through collaboration between the international mathematics education community and funded by the International Development Group at RTI Research Triangle Institute (RTI).
Widely used in low-to-middle-income countries or low-resource settings, the EGMA was designed to measure children’s math skills in a standardized but flexible way. Emphasizing number recognition and operations, the assessment is conducted as a series of timed tasks aimed at evaluating the understanding of core math concepts.
To streamline these math evaluations in the field, SurveyCTO’s EGMA template offers:
- The ability to time each given task of the template for completely streamlined operations
- Optimization for mobile devices so the entire assessment, including the timing of each task, can be administered on-site anywhere in the world
- An easy-to-use workflow that can be ready in a few simple clicks! Simply install the workflow in SurveyCTO’s template Hub, open it on SurveyCTO Collect, and you’re ready to start testing!
The EGMA was designed to be customized to fit local contexts, with flexibility for languages and cultural contexts around mathematics. True to this vision, this EGMA template gives you the ability to adapt the language and questions of your evaluations to fit the people you work with
Use this EGMA template as-is, or customize it to meet your needs for your next early-grade math assessment.
How to administer the EGMA effectively
Mathematics is a core competency for success in today’s world—get early grade learners on the right track by accurately measuring their math skills with the EGMA. The EGMA is made up of a number of standard subtasks for assessing early-grade math skills, each of which is to be carefully timed for accurate and unbiased results.
To enable administering the EGMA in SurveyCTO, this EGMA template comes with a fully programmed form for evaluating:
- Number identification
- Number discrimination
- Missing numbers
- Addition
- Subtraction
- Word problems
Using this digital EGMA template will ensure educators and organizations cover these critical areas of math competency while eliminating manual data entry and paper forms.
Here's how this EGMA template improves math assessments:
Our EGMA template was designed in collaboration with EGMA experts and includes everything you need for successful evaluations:
- A ready-to-use workflow you can deploy in few seconds
- All the questions needed to assess number identification, addition, subtraction and word problems
- A step-by-step guide to deploying the workflow and administering the EGMA
- Integrated stopwatch functionality, eliminating the need for physical timing devices and paper forms
- A customizable workflow that can be used to administer the EGMA anywhere, even in areas with unreliable internet
