Children's handwriting ability
Conditions
Interventions
Helping Handwriting Shine focuses on improving crucial elements of fine motor skills in order to develop children’s handwriting fluency. In so doing, it aims to increase children’s capacity to develop
they then deliver the programme to pupils, which consist of three 30-minute sessions per week for eight weeks, over Autumn 2018 - Spring 2019. Taught intervention sessions include a selection of engag
playdough etc). The developer will also provide ‘gap tasks’ and video resources for ad hoc use within schools after the completion of the formal intervention. A minimum of two members of staff must a
Year 1 pupils will then need to complete baseline tests, and the school completes a short pro-forma. Schools will then be randomly allocated to either the inter
Sponsors
National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Eligible schools: 1. Mainstream state schools in England with both a Year 2 and a Year 5 2. From the following regions in England: North East, Wakefield, Leeds, Bradford, Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield All students in Year 2 at the beginning of the 2018/19 academic year, and selected students in Year 5 Year 5 students are selected by teachers using the following criteria: 1. Slow and effortful hand writers 2. Those that are faster but unable to read their own handwriting Teachers will use these criteria to select between 4-12 students, who are then randomised into control and intervention within the school
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Schools geographically outside of the target areas 2. Special schools, pupil referral units 3. Schools who have not signed MoU and provided data
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Students' overall writing ability, measured by the Writing Assessment Measure (Dunsmuir, Kyriacou, Batuwitage, Hinson, Ingram and O’Sullivan, 2013), marked using Comparative Judgement, at baseline and follow-up Year 2 baseline: June – July 2018 Year 5 baseline: September – October 2018 Year 2/5 follow-up: June – July 2019 | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Students' overall writing ability, measured on all Year 5 students and a random subset of Year 2 pupils using the Writing Assessment Measure (see primary outcome measure), marked using published criterion-referenced mark scheme, at baseline and follow up 2. Students' handwriting speed, measured on the sample subsample, using the Handwriting Speed Test (Wallen, Bonney and Lennox, 2006), at baseline and follow-up Year 2 baseline: June – July 2018 Year 5 baseline: September – October 2018 Year 2/5 follow-up: June – July 2019 | — |
Countries
England, United Kingdom
Outcome results
None listed