Delivering the FLL programme costs £11.53 per pupil per year over three years (£1037 total) for one class of 30, excluding teacher cover for training¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2017 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Assuming a teacher attends the training and delivers the intervention to one class of 30 pupils each year, the cost per pupil is £11.53 per year over three years or £1037 in total. → Wiggins et al. 2017

Evidence¶

Wiggins et al. 2017¶

Meg Wiggins, Constanza Gonzalez Parrao, Helen Austerberry and Anne Ingold. (2017). Foreign Language Learning in Primary School: Evaluation report and executive summary. Education Endowment Foundation. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED581156

q2 · i? · causal · r2

Cost information gathered directly from the programme developer (EDT) via questions about resources required to run the programme; the evaluation team used this to calculate the cost of a school participating in the next academic year. The EEF cost rating was five pound signs (£ £ £ £ £).

"Assuming a teacher attends the training and then delivers the intervention to one class of 30 pupils each year, the cost per pupil is £11.53 per year over three years or £1037 in total."

Discussion¶

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