The SHINE in Secondaries Saturday school showed a very small impact on literacy and numeracy outcomes across all four pilot schools¶

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q2 i? The pilot evaluation detected very small effect sizes on the primary and secondary outcomes of literacy and numeracy. → Victoria Menzies 2015

Evidence¶

Victoria Menzies 2015¶

Victoria Menzies, Clare Collyer, Dimitra Kokotsaki, Catherine Hewitt, Kirsty Younger, Andy Wiggins and Carole Torgerson. (2015). SHINE in Secondaries: Evaluation report and Executive summary. Education Endowment Foundation. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED581429

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Pilot quasi-experiment using a two-cut-point regression discontinuity design with tie-breaker randomisation in four schools (613 pupils pre-tested). The report states the evaluation showed "a very small impact on literacy outcomes across all four schools" on Progress in English and Progress in Maths tests; no effect size value is printed in the supplied text.

"The evaluation showed a very small impact on literacy outcomes across all four schools using the Progress in English and Progres s in Maths tests."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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