The VEFP showed no statistically significant impact on reading for pupils eligible for free school meals¶
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q3 i? For FSM-eligible pupils (n=81 intervention, 77 control), the effect on NGRT reading score was not statistically significant. → Styles 2014
Evidence¶
Styles 2014¶
Styles, B., Stevens, E., Bradshaw, S., & Clarkson, R. (2014). Vocabulary Enrichment Intervention Programme Evaluation Report and Executive Summary. Education Endowment Foundation. http://www.controlled-trials.com/ISRCTN67513320/
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Pre-specified subgroup analysis on FSM pupils within the pupil-randomised trial. The report states effect sizes of "0.06 and 0.01, respectively" for all pupils and FSM pupils; the FSM estimate (95% CI -0.23, 0.25, p=0.948) was not statistically significant.
"The headline findings suggest that on average the programme had a slightly positive impact on the reading ability across all pupils and across pupils eligible for free school meals, with effect sizes of 0.06 and 0.01, respectively."
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Socioeconomic Status — moderator: an instructional effect differs by group
Related Claims¶
- RLC showed no differential impact for pupils eligible for free school meals — related
- The intervention showed no evidence of differentially benefiting pupils eligible for free school meals in any of the schools — related
- FSM-eligible pupils made around five additional months' progress under TDTS (effect size +0.38), though this finding has lower security — related
- EEF-funded interventions improved FSM pupils' literacy outcomes with a pooled effect size of 0.06, equivalent to about one month's progress — a broader claim this one bears on
- The Vocabulary Enrichment Full Programme showed no statistically significant impact on Year 7 pupils' reading ability in a pupil-randomised controlled trial — related
- Some higher-ability pupils found the VEFP too easy and teachers felt such pupils should not have been in the study — related
- The VEFP showed no statistically significant effect on the NGRT secondary outcomes of sentence completion or passage comprehension — related
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