RLC showed no evidence of impact on KS2 reading outcomes in a two-year randomised controlled trial¶

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Currency · newest study 2017 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q4 i? There was no evidence that RLC had an impact on the primary outcome of reading at Key Stage 2 (effect size 0.02, p = 0.74). → Dr Jo Rose 2017

Evidence¶

Dr Jo Rose 2017¶

Dr Jo Rose, Professor Sally Thomas, Dr Lei Zhang, Dr Anna Edwards, Dr Andres Augero, Ms Pooneh Roney. (2017). Research Learning Communities: Evaluation report and executive summary. Education Endowment Foundation. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED581267

q4 · i? · causal · r3

Well-powered two-armed randomised controlled trial of 119 primary schools with 5462 pupils; the executive summary table reports Reading with 5462 pupils, effect size 0.02 (-0.09,0.12), 0 months' progress, p value 0.74. Equivalence was not tested.

"There was no evidence that RLC had an impact on the primary outcome of reading at Key Stage 2."

Discussion¶

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