Evaluation of Lexia Reading Core5®, a computer-based, independent learning system.

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Struggling readers.; Mental and Behavioural Disorders

• Registration Number: ISRCTN42120944
• Lead Sponsor: Education Endowment Foundation

Brief Summary

2022 Funder report results in https://d2tic4wvo1iusb.cloudfront.net/documents/projects/EEF-Lexia-report_NPD-integrated.pdf?v=1668772734 (added 21/11/2022)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2019-03-13
• Study Completion: 2020-06-30
• Last Update Posted: 5 December 2022

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 700

Inclusion Criteria

Schools are eligible to participate if:
1. Had approximately 50 pupils per year group;
2. Were not involved in another EEF trial focusing on KS1 literacy or aiming to achieve change at a whole school level;
3. Were not currently using Lexia Reading Core5®, or had used Lexia Reading Core5® in the past 12 months
4. Met the technological requirements to support an IT-based intervention (the intervention can be run on iPads); and
5. Were willing to implement the intervention with respect to the random allocation (i.e. only with those pupils assigned to the intervention group).

Within participating schools, KS1 pupils, aged between 5 and 7 are eligible to participate if:
1. They have been identified as struggling readers through independent administration of the Word Identification, Word Attack and Passage Comprehension subtests of the WRMT-R/NU (summer 2018); and
2. A withdrawal of data form is not received from the parent.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Year 2 pupils not identified as a struggling reader through the independent administration of the three subtests of the WRMT-R/NU at the end of Year 1 (as above)

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Composite of the raw scores of four subtests of the WRMT-III (Word Identification, Word Attack, Passage Comprehension, and Oral Reading Fluency) for Year 2 pupils, reflecting overall reading ability. The assessments will be administered when the children are at the end of Year 2 (summer 2019).

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<br> 1. Raw scores of the individual subtests of the WRMT-III administered in summer 2019<br> 2. KS1 reading raw scores after the KS1 assessments have taken place in summer 2019<br>