SPOKES showed no statistically significant effect on primary literacy outcomes (Letter ID, Word ID, Word Attack) at immediate post-test in a pupil-randomised efficacy trial¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3 · i0 negligible
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q3 i0 At immediate post-test, effect sizes for the three primary literacy measures were small and non-significant (Letter ID 0.08, Word ID 0.05, Word Attack 0.03). → 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

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Intention-to-treat ANCOVA analysis of a two-armed, within-school, pupil-randomised efficacy trial (final analysed post-test sample n = 627, 66 schools). Table 9 reports effect sizes of 0.08 (Letter ID), 0.05 (Word ID) and 0.03 (Word Attack), described as "likely to have occurred by chance".

"While the effect sizes were positive in favour of the SPOKES programme for the primary measures they were small (representing approximately one months’ progress) and were likely to have occurred by chance rather than as a result of participating in the intervention."

Discussion¶

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