Support to the Roma Minority - Reintegration of Socially Disadvantaged Children from Special Schools into Primary Schools

The overall objective of the project was to improve the educational standards of the ROMA minority in the Slovak Republic.

The specific project objectives were:

·          To re-evaluate, update and define new diagnostic and entrance tests measuring the school readiness of children attending primary schools;

·          To re-evaluate and update of the verification tests for children enrolling to the first grades of a primary school;

·          To create a software application for the evaluation of the tests;

·          To provide on-the-job training for Slovak experts on using the proposed evaluation;

·          To organise trainings for the teachers and teacher’s assistants working with children from socially and linguistically disadvantaged environment on related topics