A survey to estimate the proportion of Southeast Sulawesi elementary school students reading fluently

Abstract

We conducted a survey to estimate the proportion of elementary school students in Southeast Sulawesi who have been able to read fluently while sitting at second grade. The information is needed to contribute to the policy towards enhancement of elementary student ability to read in their early stage of schools. A two-stage cluster sampling method had been applied in order to maintain the representativeness of selected samples over the whole population. At the first stage, we randomly chose the districts and, then, randomly selected the sub-districts. Finally, all elementary schools in each selected sub-district were taken as well as all their second grade students as the sampling units. Doing these, wegot 230 respondents randomly selected from 78 elementary schools of 20 sub-districts in all 6 selected districts or regencies. Based on the selected samples, it is approximately only 32% of students were able to read fluently, while the rest of them were unable or less abilityto read.