Among FSM-eligible pupils, music workshops showed no impact on attainment relative to the drama control¶
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q4 i? For pupils eligible for free school meals, there was no evidence that music workshops affected attainment compared to the drama control; the report describes effect sizes as close to zero. → Sarah Haywood 2015
Evidence¶
Sarah Haywood 2015¶
Sarah Haywood, Julia Griggs, Cheryl Lloyd, Stephen Morris, Zsolt Kiss, Amy Skipp. (2015). Creative Futures: Act, Sing, Play Evaluation report and Executive summary. Education Endowment Foundation. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED581247
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Subgroup analysis of the RCT restricted to FSM-eligible pupils, re-estimating the multilevel models and confirmed by interaction tests. The report prints no numeric subgroup effect size, describing effect sizes only as "close to zero".
"Similarly, there was no evidence that, among pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM), music workshops had an impact on attainment when compared to the control group (ASP -drama). Again, effect sizes were close to zero, indicating that disadvantaged children did not particularly benefit from music instruction relative to drama workshops."
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Socioeconomic Status — moderator: an instructional effect differs by group
Related Claims¶
- Music workshops (strings and singing combined) showed no greater impact on maths attainment than drama workshops in a large pupil-level RCT — related
- Music workshops showed no greater impact on literacy attainment than drama workshops in the same trial — related
- The TextNow programme showed a differential effect by free school meal eligibility: a small non-significant positive effect for FSM-eligible pupils and a significant negative effect for non-FSM pupils — related
- RLC showed no differential impact for pupils eligible for free school meals — related
- The intervention showed no evidence of differentially benefiting pupils eligible for free school meals in any of the schools — related
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