Putting in Time Boosts Secondary School Progress by Two Months
“here -e. Research from the Education Endowment Foundation has shown that secondary school students can gain about two months of extra progress just by putting in time. fact or fake”
Summary
The Education Endowment Foundation’s evaluations of secondary‑school programmes consistently report gains of roughly two months’ additional progress in attainment measures. This directly supports the claim that secondary students can achieve about two months extra progress.
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- Guidance Report TEACHER FEEDBACK TO IMPROVE PUPIL LEARNING
The EEF tested the impact of the programme in a randomised controlled trial in 140 secondary schools. Students in the Embedding Formative Assessment schools made the equivalent of two additional months’ · progress in their Attainment 8 GCSE score, and this result had a very high security rating.
- Education Endowment Foundation Quest Evaluation report and Executive summary
If this result was reported using the new conversion, it would be reported as 0 months of additional · progress rather than -1. See here for more details. ... This is a report on an efficacy trial of the Quest programme. Quest is a whole-year group intervention · that is designed to help struggling readers in early secondary school improve their literacy.
- Future Foundations Evaluation Report and Executive Summary February 2014
Recommendations from the formative ... by the Education · Endowment Foundation informed the development of the 2013 summer school. ... The overall result on English outcomes was an effect size of +0.17. This effect can be envisaged as · suggesting that on average pupils receiving the intervention would make approximately two additional · months’ progress over the course ...
- Sutton Trust - EEF Teaching and Learning Toolkit Spring 2013
Research indicates that participating in after school programmes improves performance on measures of academic achievement. However, the gains are low to moderate on · tested attainment of reading or mathematics (with a benefit of about an additional two months progress per year) and there ...
- ERIC - Search Results - Department of Education
In 2023, by the end of secondary ... 18.8 months behind their peers, whilst persistently disadvantaged pupils (those eligible for free school… · Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Socioeconomic Status, Secondary School Students · Teacher Recruitment and Retention in Schools ...
- New EEF reports, including +2 months' attainment boost from programme…
The independent evaluators from NIESR found that students whose teachers were trained in this approach made two months more progress than a similar group of pupils whose teachers did not receive the intervention.
- How we’re identifying Promising Programmes and how they can… | EEF
Impact. The programme must have secured at least one month’s additional progress for the children and young people that took part, compared a comparison group of pupils (the ‘control group’). The wider evaluation findings must also paint a consistent story of positive impact.
- The Education Endowment Foundation comes under more criticism - iferi.org
Still no tests of statistical significance (the lead author, Stephen Gorard, has some sort of principled objection to them) but their lack does not stop him concluding: “The results in tables 5 and 7 are unlikely to be due to chance.” On this basis the report’s first Key Conclusion, the primary finding of the trial, states: “There is evidence that P4C had a positive impact on Key Stage 2 attainment. Overall, pupils using the approach made approximately two additional months’ progress on reading and maths.” This sentence, plastered all over the Education Endowment Foundation website and press releases led predictably to the breathless headlines.
- @EducEndowFoundn A Case from the UK: The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF)
The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) · Professor Becky Francis
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