The oracy intervention showed no impact on Year 7 students' non-verbal reasoning skills as measured by the Raven's Progressive Matrices test¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Pre and post Raven's Progressive Matrices testing showed no impact of the intervention on students' non-verbal reasoning skills. → Maxwell 2015

Evidence¶

Maxwell 2015¶

Maxwell, B., Burnett, C., Reidy, J., Willis, B., & Demack, S. (2015). Oracy Curriculum, Culture and Assessment Toolkit: Evaluation report and Executive summary. Education Endowment Foundation. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED581146

q2 · i? · design · r2

Indicative quantitative impact measure comparing pre and post Raven's Progressive Matrices results for 20 School 21 Year 7 students with 18 students from a comparison school. The report states the tests "showed no impact of the intervention on student's non- verbal reasoning skills"; no effect size is printed for this comparison.

"Findings from the pre and post Ravens Progressive Matrices tests, administered by the evaluators, showed no impact of the intervention on student's non- verbal reasoning skills."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• The prototype Oracy Assessment Toolkit gave a tentative indication that the intervention positively impacted students' oracy skills — related
• At pre-test there was no statistically significant difference in non-verbal reasoning between School 21 and control school students — related