Pupils, teachers and parents held very positive views about the uniformed youth group intervention¶

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q2 i? The process evaluation found that pupils, teachers and parents were very positive about the intervention and generally believed it had a positive impact on participating pupils. → Gorard et al. 2016

Evidence¶

Gorard et al. 2016¶

Stephen Gorard, Beng Huat See, Nadia Siddiqui, Emma Smith and Patrick White. (2016). Youth Social Action Trials: Youth United — Evaluation report and executive summary. Education Endowment Foundation. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED581107

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Process evaluation collecting feedback from teachers, pupils and parents about mode of delivery and programme implementation. Views were positive across all three groups, though these are self-reported perceptions rather than measured outcomes.

"The process evaluation revealed that pupils, teachers , and parents all had very positive views about the intervention, and in general believed that it had a positive impact on the pupils involved."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Pupils and school staff held generally positive views of the chess intervention despite the null impact result — related
• Prior evidence on uniformed youth group impacts lacked robust designs, with no comparison groups and reliance on self-report — related
• School-based uniformed youth group participation showed no evidence of benefit for pupils' academic attainment, with small negative but low-quality effect estimates — related
• Participating schools were positive about the tuition and keen to work with the Tutor Trust again, and staff saw a need for more affordable high-quality tuition — a broader claim this one bears on