Only 57% of intervention parents attended the five or more sessions judged necessary to count as programme completers¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2016 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2019: local conditions change quickly

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Average attendance indicated only 57% of parents participated in five or more of the ten sessions, the developer-defined 'completer' threshold. → Tracey 2016

Evidence¶

Tracey 2016¶

Tracey, L., Chambers, B., Bywater, T., & Elliott, L. (2016). SPOKES Evaluation report and executive summary. Education Endowment Foundation. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED581435

q3 · i? · causal · r2

Attendance data collected by the Plymouth Parent Partnership across the six cohorts of the trial; the report judges this low attendance rate might have contributed to the lack of overall impact on the whole group.

"The average attendance rate indicated that only 57% of the parents participated in five or more of the ten sessions, which was judged by the development team to be the level of attendance required to be considered a ‘completer’ of the SPOKES programme."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Time and Continuity — outcome: instruction changes it

Related Claims¶

• Financial incentives of £30 per session increased parental attendance at Parent Academy sessions — related
• A parents' information evening improved parents' skills and prompted information-sharing, but reached only a minority of parents — related
• Intervention parents interviewed in the process evaluation reported liking the SPOKES programme and believing it improved their children's reading — related