Teachers, senior leaders, speech and language therapists and local authority managers perceived that Talk of the Town had a positive effect on pupil learning and confidence¶

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Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r1 · q2
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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Process-evaluation interviews found stakeholders perceived positive effects on pupil learning and confidence. → Thurston 2016

Evidence¶

Thurston 2016¶

Thurston, A. (2016). Talk of the Town: Evaluation report and executive summary. Education Endowment Foundation. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED581531

q2 · i? · qualitative · r1

Process evaluation based on interviews with teachers, senior management teams, speech and language therapists and local authority managers. This is perception evidence, not an outcome measure; no effect size is printed.

"There was evidence that teachers, members of school senior management teams, speech and language therapists and local authority managers perceived that the Talk of the Town intervention had a positive effect on pupil learning and confidence."

Discussion¶

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