An independent evaluation of the effectiveness of the SHINE in Secondaries Saturday School programme at improving literacy and numeracy for children in Year 7: a pilot study using regression discontinuity design

Durham University0 sites700 target enrollmentSeptember 10, 2013

Overview

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Registry

who.int

Start Date

September 10, 2013

End Date

TBD

Last Updated

9 years ago

Study Type

Interventional

Sex

All

Sponsor

•1\. Secondary schools will be eligible to participate if they are awarded a grant by the SHINE Trust, through a competitive process, to run the SHINE in Secondaries programme. The criteria required is that schools are expecting to have at least 80 children coming into Year 7 who have not achieved a National Curriculum level 4 (as required by the funder) and to serve areas of disadvantage as measured by a higher than average proportion of children on free school meals. They also must have the ability, capacity and commitment to run the SHINE in Secondaries programme as judged by the SHINE Trust.
•2\. All Year 7 pupils in each participating school will participate in the study unless parents choose to opt\-out of their child?s data being used.
•3\. Although all Year 7 pupils will participate, assignment to the intervention or control group will be done using a literacy test; those scoring below a first cut\-point will be in the intervention group, those scoring above a second cut\-point will be in the control group and those scoring between the two cut\-points will be placed on a waiting list in a random order should there be available spaces before the intervention begins.

•1\. Schools not awarded a grant by the SHINE trust will be excluded.
•2\. Eligible Year 7 children whose parents do not wish their child?s data to be used will also be excluded.