School Partnerships Programme: a school-level matched difference in differences evaluation of impact on pupil attainment

Education Endowment Foundation (UK)0 sites600 target enrollmentMay 21, 2018

Overview

No summary available.

Registry

who.int

Start Date

May 21, 2018

End Date

December 31, 2020

Last Updated

4 years ago

Study Type

Interventional

Sex

All

Sponsor

Education Endowment Foundation (UK)

•Target recruitment was 50 clusters of English state\-funded primary schools to be recruited with an approximate cluster size of 6, making 300 schools in total, with the proviso that if cluster size is smaller than expected additional recruitment would be undertaken to bring the number of schools recruited up to 300\. In the event, the project team (EDT) successfully recruited far more schools than anticipated, providing a sample of 437 English state\-funded primary schools in 85 clusters (average cluster size of just over 5\). All recruited schools will receive the intervention, while statistical matching methods will be used to identify the counterfactual group. In order to be considered, schools will have to agree to cooperate with the project and evaluation teams during the trial. The project team will advertise the trial and also approach schools through their existing networks. Where possible it will aim to recruit schools that have larger populations of individuals receiving FSM.
•For the evaluation, the study focuses on the test scores of those in school Year 6 (age 10\-11\) when the two year programme ends.