An additional analysis using Key Stage 2 administrative test scores also found indeterminate, close-to-zero effects for Year 6 pupils.¶

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Subclaims¶

q3 i? Using Key Stage 2 reading and maths scores for all 36 schools, treatment point estimates were close to zero with large standard errors and confidence intervals passing through zero. → Sandra McNally 2014

Evidence¶

Sandra McNally 2014¶

Sandra McNally, Amy Challen, Gill Wyness, Anne West, Philip Noden. (2014). Hampshire Hundreds Evaluation Report and Executive Summary. Education Endowment Foundation. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED581163

q3 · i? · causal · r2

Additional (non-protocol) intention-to-treat analysis using national Key Stage 2 standardised scores for all Year 6 pupils in the original 36 schools: reading effect size -0.038 (95% CI [-0.211, 0.135], n=1347) and maths -0.006 (95% CI [-0.177, 0.164], n=1351), both non-significant. The report says conclusions were "unchanged" using this sample.

"Again, our point estimates are close to zero with a l arge standard deviation. We cannot rule out positive or negative effects."

Discussion¶

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