Multisite educational trials: estimating the effect size and its confidence intervals

Singh, A.; Uwimpuhwe, G.; Li, M.; Einbeck, J.; Higgins, S.; Kasim, A.

doi:10.1080/1743727x.2021.1882416

All Outputs (8)

The differential impact of Covid-19 related school closures on English primary school pupils’ writing performance (2025)
Report
Beckmann, J., Einbeck, J., & Hunt, A. (2025). The differential impact of Covid-19 related school closures on English primary school pupils’ writing performance. Nuffield Foundation

Lack of effect of a parent‐delivered early language intervention: Evidence from a randomised controlled trial completed during COVID‐19 (2024)
Journal Article
Burgoyne, K., Hargreaves, S., Akhter, N., Cramman, H., Eerola, P., Einbeck, J., & Menzies, V. (online). Lack of effect of a parent‐delivered early language intervention: Evidence from a randomised controlled trial completed during COVID‐19. JCPP Advances, Article e12279. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12279

Background: Parents play a key role in their child's early development but evidence that parental engagement strategies are effective is unclear. The current study evaluated a parent‐delivered early language teaching programme that aimed to support c... Read More about Lack of effect of a parent‐delivered early language intervention: Evidence from a randomised controlled trial completed during COVID‐19.

Evaluating the impact of the Parents and Children Together (PACT) programme on the language skills of 3- to 4-year-old nursery children A two-armed randomised trial (2024)
Report
Menzies, V., Eerola, P.-S., Zhang, Q., Cramman, H., & Einbeck, J. (2024). Evaluating the impact of the Parents and Children Together (PACT) programme on the language skills of 3- to 4-year-old nursery children A two-armed randomised trial. Educational Endowment Foundation

Improving power calculations in educational trials (2023)
Report
Singh, A., Uwimpuhwe, G., Vallis, D., Akhter, N., Coolen-Maturi, T., Einbeck, J., Higgins, S., Culliney, M., & Demack, S. (2023). Improving power calculations in educational trials. Education Endowment Foundation

The aim of this study was to investigate and empirically derive parameters commonly used for statistical power and sample size calculations to better inform future trial design. Towards achieving this aim, the research project leveraged the richness... Read More about Improving power calculations in educational trials.

Individual participant data meta-analysis: pooled effect of EEF funded educational trials on low baseline attaining group (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Uwimpuhwe, G., Singh, A., Akhter, N., Ashraf, B., Coolen-Maturi, T., Robinson, T., Higgins, S., & Einbeck, J. (2023, July). Individual participant data meta-analysis: pooled effect of EEF funded educational trials on low baseline attaining group. Presented at International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Dortmund

The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), a charity aiming to break the link between socioeconomic disadvantage and pupil attainment, has commissioned over 200 randomised controlled trials. The collection of data from these trials, the `EEF Data Arch... Read More about Individual participant data meta-analysis: pooled effect of EEF funded educational trials on low baseline attaining group.

Parents and Children Together (PACT) Evaluation Report (2022)
Report
Menzies, V., Cramman, H., Eerola, P., Hugill-Jones, J., Akhter, N., & Einbeck, J. (2022). Parents and Children Together (PACT) Evaluation Report. [No known commissioning body]

Individual-participant-data-meta-analysis-of-the-impact-of-EEF-trials-on-the-educational-attainment-of-pupils-on-Free-School-Meals (2021)
Report
Ashraf, B., Singh, A., Uwimpuhwe, G., Coolen-Maturi, T., Einbeck, J., Higgins, S., & Kasim, A. (2021). Individual-participant-data-meta-analysis-of-the-impact-of-EEF-trials-on-the-educational-attainment-of-pupils-on-Free-School-Meals. EEF

Multisite educational trials: estimating the effect size and its confidence intervals (2021)
Journal Article
Singh, A., Uwimpuhwe, G., Li, M., Einbeck, J., Higgins, S., & Kasim, A. (2022). Multisite educational trials: estimating the effect size and its confidence intervals. International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 45(1), 18-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/1743727x.2021.1882416

In education, multisite trials involve randomisation of pupils into intervention and comparison groups within schools. Most analytical models in multisite educational trials ignore that the impact of an intervention may be school dependent. This stud... Read More about Multisite educational trials: estimating the effect size and its confidence intervals.