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¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2016 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Compared to other boys, boys whose parents participated in SPOKES made about three months' additional progress on word identification and phonetic awareness at six-month follow-up and about seven months on phonetic awareness at twelve-month follow-up. → 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

Subgroup analysis by gender in the pupil-randomised trial; the report states the positive results "would be unlikely to have occurred by chance", though no standardised effect sizes are printed in the quoted passage.

"those whose parents took part in SPOKES experienced about three months of additional progress on word identification and phonetic awareness at the six-month follow-up, and about seven months of additional progress on phonetic awareness at the twelve-month follow-up."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Intervention parents were more likely than control parents to ask their child about revising for upcoming tests — related
• SPOKES showed no statistically significant effects on WRMT-R literacy outcomes at six- and twelve-month follow-up for the whole sample — related
• 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 — related
• Intervention parents interviewed in the process evaluation reported liking the SPOKES programme and believing it improved their children's reading — related