Stockard, Jean2023-04-122023-04-122010https://hdl.handle.net/1794/2819012 pagesEducating young children is one of the most pressing problems facing less developed countries around the world. A well educated populace is crucial in helping nations escape from grinding poverty. But developing a well functioning education system in the face of very limited financial and human resources can be extremely difficult. This report describes how Direct Instruction can help meet these educational challenges. Our data come from Liberia, a country in West Africa, and replicate results that were obtained in an earlier study in an impoverished and highly segregated area of South Africa. The first section of this report briefly summarizes research on Direct Instruction and its use in the African context two decades ago. It then describes the use of DI in a Liberian school and reports data on reading skills, comparing the achievement of the Liberian DI students to that of Liberian students in a comparison school and to students in the rural Midwestern United States. A final section briefly discusses implications of these results.enCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USDynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS)Technical ReportEducation in Developing CountriesTechnical Report