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Lord, Pippa; Bradshaw, Sally; Stevens, Eleanor; Styles, Ben – Education Endowment Foundation, 2015
The Perry Beeches Coaching Programme aimed to improve the reading and writing skills of Year 7 pupils with low levels of attainment in four English secondary schools. Across the project, 16 coaches were employed to provide academic support to pupils who had not reached level 4c in English at the end of Key Stage 2. Originally it had been intended…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Writing Skills, Coaching (Performance), Secondary School Students
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Styles, Ben; Clarkson, Rebecca; Fowler, Katherine – Education Endowment Foundation, 2014
This National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) report has been produced for the Education Endowment Foundation and its evaluation of the Chatterbooks reading scheme. Chatterbooks is an extracurricular reading initiative, developed by the Reading Agency, that aims to increase a child's motivation to read by providing tools and resources…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Reading Programs, Reading Motivation, Recreational Reading
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Styles, Ben; Stevens, Eleanor; Bradshaw, Sally; Clarkson, Rebecca – Education Endowment Foundation, 2014
The Vocabulary Enrichment Full Programme combined three existing programmes--the Vocabulary Enrichment Intervention Programme (VEIP), Sounds-Write and Literacy Plus--and aimed to improve the reading abilities of pupils in Year 7. VEIP is a structured scheme that teaches children new words and encourages them to use these words in speaking and…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Enrichment Activities, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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Worth, Jack; Sizmur, Juliet; Ager, Rob; Styles, Ben – Education Endowment Foundation, 2015
The project, "Oxford Improving Numeracy and Literacy Programme," was delivered by Oxford University Department of Education. This evaluation tested two different initiatives with Year 2 children: "Mathematics and Reasoning" and "Literacy and Morphemes." The "Mathematics and Reasoning" programme aimed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Numeracy, Program Evaluation, Elementary School Mathematics