Intervention parents interviewed in the process evaluation reported liking the SPOKES programme and believing it improved their children's reading¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Most interviewed intervention parents reported liking and benefiting from SPOKES and believed it improved their children's reading at post-test and follow-ups. → 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

q2 · i? · qualitative · r2

Light-touch process evaluation using telephone interviews with a random sample of one third of intervention parents, plus weekly and end-of-programme evaluation forms analysed thematically; findings are parental perceptions, not attainment measures.

"most of the intervention parents who were interviewed reported liking and benefitting from their participation in the SPOKES programme. At both immediate post-test and subsequent follow-ups they believed that it improved their children’s reading."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Boys whose parents took part in SPOKES showed positive follow-up effects of about three months' additional progress at six months and about seven months at twelve months on some reading measures — related
• Only 57% of intervention parents attended the five or more sessions judged necessary to count as programme completers — related