The Paired Reading programme showed no evidence of impact on Year 7 and Year 9 pupils' overall reading ability in a cluster RCT¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3
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Subclaims¶

q3 i? A cluster randomised controlled trial found no evidence that Paired Reading improved overall reading ability of participating pupils. → Lloyd et al. 2015

Evidence¶

Lloyd et al. 2015¶

Cheryl Lloyd, Triin Edovald, Zsolt Kiss, Stephen Morris, Amy Skipp and Hashim Ahmed (NatCen Social Research). (2015). Paired Reading Evaluation report and Executive summary. Education Endowment Foundation. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED581127

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Cluster randomised controlled trial of 2,736 pupils in 120 classes in ten secondary schools, with 58 classes allocated to intervention and 62 to control. The primary outcome was the NGRT Overall Reading Scale; the report concludes there was "no evidence from this evaluation" of any positive impact.

"There is no evidence from this evaluation that the Paired Reading programme had any positive impact on overall reading ability of participating pupils, measured using the New Group Reading Test (NGRT) scores"

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Reading and Language — outcome: instruction changes it

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