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

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Academic attainment at age 11; Not Applicable

• Registration Number: ISRCTN20687346
• Lead Sponsor: Education Endowment Foundation (UK)

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2018-05-21
• Study Completion: 2020-12-31
• Last Update Posted: 20 September 2021

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 600

Inclusion Criteria

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.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Independent schools
2. Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish schools

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
School average performance in KS2 maths tests (currently mat_average in administrative datasets) in pre- and post-treatment years, collected from publicly available school-level reports collected by schools from testing conducted during the summer term of each academic year and reported to the UK Department for Education (DfE) in line with national requirements

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
School average performance in KS2 reading tests (read_average in administrative datasets) in pre- and post-treatment years, collected from publicly available school-level reports collected by schools from testing conducted during the summer term of each academic year and reported to the UK Department for Education (DfE) in line with national requirements