School leadership development in science departments in secondary schools Other School leadership development in science departments in secondary schools
Conditions
Interventions
Once schools submit administrative teacher data, NFER will reveal the school’s randomisation outcome to them. An NFER statistician will randomise schools from the first cohort of up to 70 schools in M
Sponsors
Education Endowment foundation (EEF)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Schools: secondary schools in the North of England and surrounding areas will be eligible to take part in the trial 2. Teachers: 2.1 Science teachers who are employed and on maternity leave in the academic year 2019/20 (2021/22 for Cohort 2) will be include in the trial 2.2 Science teachers will include those who are teaching Physics, Chemistry, Biology or General Science to any year group for more than 50 per cent of their timetable and for a minimum of four hours per week for part-time staff in the academic year 2019/20 (2021/22 for Cohort 2) 2.3 In case there are staffing changes, schools will send us an update by September 2019 (prior to intervention delivery). We will not measure the retention outcomes of science teachers who join the school after the intervention delivery starts for a given cohort: this eliminates the risk of their recruitment being for a reason that is biased by the intervention 3. Pupils: we will include students who are in Year 9 at randomisation (academic year 2018/19 for Cohort 1 schools and 2020/21 for Cohort 2 schools)
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Staff who are known to be leaving during the 2018/19 academic year.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Retention of science teachers in the state-funded school system six months after the end of programme delivery measured using data from the School Workforce Census (SWC). It will be a dichotomous (yes/no) variable, denoting each teacher’s presence in the SWC. Timepoint of measurement: as Leadership Lite is a two-year programme, the primary outcome will be in the census collected after the programme finishes: i.e. November 2021 for Cohort 1 and November 2023 for Cohort 2 | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Science teacher retention in the same school as at randomisation six months after the end of programme delivery for each cohort measured using data from the SWC. It will be a dichotomous (yes/no) variable, denoting each teacher’s presence in the same school teaching any subject. Timepoint of measurement: as Leadership Lite is a two-year programme, this secondary outcome will be in the census collected after the programme finishes: i.e. November 2021 for Cohort 1 and November 2023 for Cohort 2. 2. Student GCSE attainment in science measured using a GCSE science point score measure, capturing the science attainment in a comparable way depending on which science GCSE students sit (e.g. double or triple science). Timepoint of measurement: The data will be accessed via the National Pupil database (NPD) and include the entire Year 9 cohort at the time when the school was randomised- May/June 2019 for Cohort 1 and May/June 2021 for Cohort 2. 3. Student progression to science A-level (cohort 1 only) measured as a dichotomous variable (yes/no), measuring whether or not each student enters A-level examinations in a science subject. Timepoint of measurement: this will be possible only for Cohort 1 schools where students were in Year 9 in May/June 2019 4. Teacher workload and job satisfaction measured using teacher surveys. Timepoint of measurement: baseline (before the intervention delivery) and follow-up (summer 2021 for cohort 1; summer 2023 for cohort 2) | — |
Countries
England, United Kingdom
Contacts
Public ContactJack Worth
Outcome results
None listed