All Outputs (7)

Philosophy for Children: SAPERE, Evaluation Report and Executive Summary, EEF (2015)
Report
Gorard, S., Siddiqui, N., & See, B. (2015). Philosophy for Children: SAPERE, Evaluation Report and Executive Summary, EEF. [No known commissioning body]

This study is an independent evaluation of the intervention called ‘Philosophy for Children’ (P4C). The aim of evaluation was to investigate the impact of P4C on year 6 pupils’ academic attainment after a yearlong practice of intervention in the prim... Read More about Philosophy for Children: SAPERE, Evaluation Report and Executive Summary, EEF.

Word and World Knowledge: Curriculum Centre (2015)
Report
Gorard, S., See, B., & Siddiqui, N. (2015). Word and World Knowledge: Curriculum Centre. [No known commissioning body]

Evaluation of the Curriculum Centre Word and World Reading programme. (2015)
Report
See, B., Gorard, S., & Siddiqui, N. (2015). Evaluation of the Curriculum Centre Word and World Reading programme. [No known commissioning body]

The Word and World Reading programmeintended to improve the reading comprehension and wider literacy skills of children aged 7-9 in primary schools from low income families in England. The programme was implemented with 659 of 1,340 pupils (in 8 out... Read More about Evaluation of the Curriculum Centre Word and World Reading programme..

Best practice in conducting RCTs: Lessons learnt from an independent evaluation of the Response-to-Intervention programme (2015)
Journal Article
See, B., Gorard, S., & Siddiqui, N. (2015). Best practice in conducting RCTs: Lessons learnt from an independent evaluation of the Response-to-Intervention programme. Studies in Educational Evaluation, 47, 83-92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stueduc.2015.09.003

This paper presents the findings of the first independent UK evaluation of a large-scale randomised controlled trial of Response-to-Intervention, used as a catch-up literacy intervention. A total of 385 pupils in their final year of primary school (Y... Read More about Best practice in conducting RCTs: Lessons learnt from an independent evaluation of the Response-to-Intervention programme.

Will the Use of Contextual Indicators Make UK Higher Education Admissions Fairer? (2015)
Journal Article
Boliver, V., Gorard, S., & Siddiqui, N. (2015). Will the Use of Contextual Indicators Make UK Higher Education Admissions Fairer?. Education Sciences, 5(4), 306-322. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci5040306

In the UK, as elsewhere, the use of ‘contextual’ data has been strongly advocated in order to inform undergraduate admissions decision-making. More than a third of UK universities currently take the socioeconomic or other background context of underg... Read More about Will the Use of Contextual Indicators Make UK Higher Education Admissions Fairer?.

How effective is a summer school for catch-up attainment in English and maths? (2015)
Journal Article
Gorard, S., Siddiqui, N., & See, B. (2015). How effective is a summer school for catch-up attainment in English and maths?. International Journal of Educational Research, 73, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2015.07.003

The current study is an efficacy trial of a summer school programme, targeted at literacy and numeracy catch-up for pupils in years 5 and 6. During the summer holidays the intervention provided extra schooling in English and maths along with a wide v... Read More about How effective is a summer school for catch-up attainment in English and maths?.

Accelerated Reader as a literacy catch-up intervention during primary to secondary school transition phase (2015)
Journal Article
Siddiqui, N., Gorard, S., & See, B. (2015). Accelerated Reader as a literacy catch-up intervention during primary to secondary school transition phase. Educational Review, 68(2), 139-154. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2015.1067883

This paper describes an evaluation of an internet-based reading programme called Accelerated Reader (AR), which is widely used in UK schools and worldwide. AR is a whole-group reading management and monitoring programme that aims to stimulate the hab... Read More about Accelerated Reader as a literacy catch-up intervention during primary to secondary school transition phase.