Educational attainment Not Applicable
Conditions
Interventions
Participants are randomised into one of three groups:
1. Literacy intervention: 20 schools and 800 pupils receiving the literacy programme over 12 weeks
2. Numeracy intervention: 20 schools and 800 pu
Sponsors
The Education Endowment Foundation (UK)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Pupils aged 6 and 7 years in year 2 of infant/primary schools from the South of England
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Parental opt-out
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Total test scores from the Progress in English test (for the literacy intervention) 2. Progress in Maths test (for the numeracy intervention) | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Test the impact of the interventions on pupils of differing abilities 2. Analyse the differential impact of the interventions on free school meal (FSM) and non-FSM pupils, and English as an additional language (EAL) and non-EAL pupils 3. Analyse the impact of the interventions on end of Key Stage 1 reading, writing and maths 4. Analyse the impact on specific domains of the tests where the interventions are thought to have a particular effect: specifically, ?Grammar? and ?Reading non-narrative? and ?Solving routine problems? 5. Analyse any transfer effects, testing the impact of the numeracy intervention on literacy test scores, and of the literacy intervention on numeracy test scores | — |
Countries
United Kingdom
Outcome results
None listed