sing the Speech Bubbles program to improve pupil attainment in schools

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Academic attainment; Not Applicable

• Registration Number: ISRCTN14448319
• Lead Sponsor: Education Endowment Foundation

Brief Summary

2021 Funder report results in https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/public/files/Speech_Bubbles_Evaluation_Report_Final.pdf (added 13/09/2021)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2018-07-24
• Study Completion: 2019-12-31
• Last Update Posted: 27 September 2021

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1006

Inclusion Criteria

Schools:
1. Located in the North West, South London and East London (for programme delivery purposes)
2. At least a two-form entry school (to reach the required sample size across a smaller number of schools)
3. Have discussed participation with Speech Bubbles and signed an MoU detailing the conditions of participation (opt-out process, pupil data provision, endline assessment, participation in IPE activities etc)
4. Able to refer 40 children into the study

Schools with an average or above average share (14.1%) of Free School Meal (FSM) children will receive priority in recruitment.

Pupils:
1. Years 1 and 2 in the year of the intervention delivery (2018/19)
2. Referred into the programme on the basis of Speech Bubbles referral guidance
3. Not been opted-out of the study by their parents.

Exclusion Criteria

N/A

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<br> The following will be assessed at the end of the intervention period - the end of the 2019 school year:<br> 1. Reading ability (phonics, literal comprehension and reading for meaning) assessed using the Progress in Reading Assessment (PIRA)<br> 2. Oral narrative skills (information content, sentence length, grammatical usage and independence), assessed using the Renfrew Bus Story test<br><br> To account for baseline variation in attainment, the child's Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (EYFSP) will be used.<br>

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<br> The following will be assessed at the end of the intervention period - the end of the 2019 school year:<br> 1. Social skills, assessed using the Social Skills scale of the Social Skills Improvement System (SSiS). This is assessed across the following subscales:<br> 1.1. Communication<br> 1.2. Cooperation<br> 1.3. Assertion<br> 1.4. Responsibility<br> 1.5. Responsibility<br> 1.6. Empathy<br> 1.7. Engagement<br> 1.8. Self-control<br> 2. Self-perception of ability to generate and use ideas in their school work, assessed using an adapted version of the ideation sub-measure of the writing self-efficacy measure, with significant simplification to make it age-group appropriate<br><br> To account for baseline variation in attainment, the child's Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (EYFSP) will be used.<br>