The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has published findings from their independent evaluation of Peer Assisted Learning Strategies UK (PALS-UK), which is a programme delivered by academics at Nottingham Trent University and the University of Birmingham.
It aims to raise reading skills by developing pupils’ oral reading fluency, their reading comprehension, as well as their motivation to read. Pupils work in pairs to complete structured reading activities.
The independent evaluation of PALS-UK – led by Manchester Metropolitan University and funded through the Department for Education’s Accelerator Fund – involved 4,800 year 5 pupils across 114 schools, with half delivering the PALS-UK programme.
The analysis found that pupils in primary schools using the PALS-UK programme made, on average, two months’ additional progress in reading compared to pupils in the schools who did not. The EEF has given the findings a security rating of “moderate to high”, meaning there is “a good level of confidence in this result”.
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