Evaluating the effectiveness of ED (previously Diagnostic Questions or DQ) formative assessment programme on raising attainment in mathematics at GCSE

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Not Applicable; ow attainment in GCSE Mathematics and excessive teacher workload

• Registration Number: ISRCTN62362872
• Lead Sponsor: Education Endowment Foundation

Brief Summary

2021 Funder report results in https://d2tic4wvo1iusb.cloudfront.net/documents/pages/projects/Eedi-report-final.pdf?v=1666895610 (added 28/10/2022)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2018-11-28
• Study Completion: 2020-07-31
• Last Update Posted: 7 November 2022

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 28930

Inclusion Criteria

Schools identified in UK Education Endowment Foundation databases, AQA and EdExcel examining board databases and through Eedi’s own data base of teachers are approached in order to gauge their interest in participating in the study. It was felt important to only admit schools to the trial where existing use of ED was either completely absent or minimal. However, ED is available to schools, teachers and pupils across England, making it difficult to find schools in which there is no existing use of the system.

Once a school has signalled their interest, Eedi (the developers and implementers) assess existing usage of Eedi at the school through examining their administrative data records. These records indicate which schools, teachers and pupils have existing accounts on Eedi and the extent of their current usage. Only schools with 30 or fewer existing pupil accounts were considered for inclusion in the trial. This threshold was devised by the developers based upon their knowledge of existing usage and how best to measure it and is considered to be low existing usage. All schools with more intensive usage according to this criterion are excluded from the trial.

It is important to note that schools can only enter the trial if they agree that access to Eedi is disabled completely for the duration of study should they be allocated to control conditions. This step is taken to avoid non-compliance among control schools.

In each school, all pupils currently in Year 9 during the school year 2017/18, whose parents do not withdraw their child from the study are considered to be in range of intervention. Pupils in intervention schools will receive instruction in mathematics using Eedi for two school years – 2018/19 (Year 10) and 2019/20 (Year 11).

Exclusion Criteria

Pupils whose parents opt to withdraw their child from the study are excluded from the study sample

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified