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Poverty Proofing the School Day: Evaluation and Development Report (2016)
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Mazzoli Smith, L., & Todd, L. (2016). Poverty Proofing the School Day: Evaluation and Development Report. [No known commissioning body]

The aim of Poverty Proofing the School Day is to remove barriers to learning which exist because of the impacts of living in poverty. The Poverty Proofing audit consists of a whole-school evaluation, a written report and action plan and training for... Read More about Poverty Proofing the School Day: Evaluation and Development Report.

Philosophy for Children: SAPERE, Evaluation Report and Executive Summary, EEF (2015)
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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.

Evaluation of the Accelerated Reader: an aggregated trial. (2015)
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Gorard, S., Siddiqui, N., & See, B. (2015). Evaluation of the Accelerated Reader: an aggregated trial. [No known commissioning body]

Accelerated Reader (AR) is an an internet-based reading programme called, which is widely used in UK schools and worldwide. AR is a whole-group reading management and monitoring programme that aims to stimulate the habit of independent reading among... Read More about Evaluation of the Accelerated Reader: an aggregated trial..

Systematic review of the impact of arts education on the cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes of school-aged children. (2015)
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See, B., & Kokotsaki, D. (2015). Systematic review of the impact of arts education on the cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes of school-aged children. [No known commissioning body]

The aim of this review was to examine empirical evidence to establish whether arts participation could lead to improvements in children’s attainment at school and their wider outcomes, and to identify the arts activities with the best evidence of suc... Read More about Systematic review of the impact of arts education on the cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes of school-aged children..

Equity-related challenges in education and training, existing measures, assessment, proposals for future measures, Report to the EU Commission (2015)
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Gorard, S. (2015). Equity-related challenges in education and training, existing measures, assessment, proposals for future measures, Report to the EU Commission. [No known commissioning body]

This is a report on the main challenges to equity in provision and outcomes, as faced by the education and training (ET) systems of Europe, based on a synthesis of individual reports on each of the 28 countries supplemented by other available evidenc... Read More about Equity-related challenges in education and training, existing measures, assessment, proposals for future measures, Report to the EU Commission.

Evaluation of the Curriculum Centre Word and World Reading programme. (2015)
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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..

Evaluation of the Fresh Start: an aggregated trial. (2015)
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Gorard, S., Siddiqui, N., & See, B. (2015). Evaluation of the Fresh Start: an aggregated trial. [No known commissioning body]

We evaluated the impact and feasibility of Fresh Start as an intervention to help new entrants with low prior literacy, based on a randomised controlled trial conducted with 10 secondary schools in England. Fresh Start is a synthetic phonics programm... Read More about Evaluation of the Fresh Start: an aggregated trial..