ISRCTN13315075
Completed
N/A
A randomised controlled trial of the impact of the Helping Handwriting Shine programme on Year 2 and Year 5 students' handwriting and writing composition ability
ational Foundation for Educational Research (NFER)0 sites4,216 target enrollmentJuly 24, 2018
Overview
- Phase
- N/A
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Children's handwriting ability
- Sponsor
- ational Foundation for Educational Research (NFER)
- Enrollment
- 4216
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 3 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
Funder report results in https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/public/files/Projects/Evaluation_Reports/Helping_Handwriting_Shine_Report_-_final.pdf funder report (added 02/02/2021)
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Eligible schools:
- •1\. Mainstream state schools in England with both a Year 2 and a Year 5
- •2\. From the following regions in England: North East, Wakefield, Leeds, Bradford, Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield
- •All students in Year 2 at the beginning of the 2018/19 academic year, and selected students in Year 5
- •Year 5 students are selected by teachers using the following criteria:
- •1\. Slow and effortful hand writers
- •2\. Those that are faster but unable to read their own handwriting
- •Teachers will use these criteria to select between 4\-12 students, who are then randomised into control and intervention within the school
Exclusion Criteria
- •1\. Schools geographically outside of the target areas
- •2\. Special schools, pupil referral units
- •3\. Schools who have not signed MoU and provided data
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Not specified
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