All of the CAT gain from P4C came from the verbal subscale, with little difference on quantitative, non-verbal and spatial elements¶

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Subclaims¶

q3 i? The CAT improvement was confined to the verbal subscale; there was very little difference between treatment and control groups on quantitative, non-verbal, and spatial elements. → Gorard et al. 2015

Evidence¶

Gorard et al. 2015¶

Stephen Gorard, Nadia Siddiqui and Beng Huat See. (2015). Philosophy for Children: Evaluation report and Executive summary. Education Endowment Foundation. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED581147

q3 · i? · causal · r2

Subscale analysis of the CAT4 gain scores in the same randomised trial, covering the four printed CAT4 reasoning categories (verbal, non-verbal, quantitative, spatial). No subscale effect size is printed in the quoted text, so no magnitude is reported here.

"All of the gain in the CAT scores comes from the verbal subscale. There was very little difference between treatment and control groups in terms of quantitative, non-verbal, and spatial elements of the CAT."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Spatial Ability — outcome: instruction changes it

Related Claims¶

• P4C effects on Cognitive Abilities Test scores were mixed by starting year group, with only a small overall improvement — related