This page provides a link to reviews of school based interventions. They were written by UCL Year 1 Trainee Educational Psychologists and submitted as a formally assessed piece of coursework on the Doctorate in Educational and Psychology. The trainees in each cohort collaborated in selecting different interventions so that they could also produce a resource of value both to their group and to Educational Psychology Services.

One set of reports is currently available:

• School Based Interventions for Learning. This set was produced by the 2011-14 cohort of trainees.

Each report is structured as follows:

1. Summary - provides a brief description of the intervention and the conclusions of the review.
2. Introduction - describes the intervention, its basis in theory/research and how it is currently used.
3. Systematic Review of the Evidence Base - reports and critically analyses available studies that have attempted to evaluate the intervention.
4. Conclusions and recommendations.
5. References and appendices.


Author	Title of report and link to downloadable pdf file

Ying Ying Ang	What are the effects of teacher-implemented comprehension strategy instruction on the reading comprehension performance amongst secondary school students with specific learning difficulties?

Lucy Ball	Is visualisation training an effective intervention for improving the reading comprehension of English speaking primary school aged children?

Marcus Bennett	Does repeated reading improve reading comprehension for students with reading difficulties?

Vanna Cotzia	Children learning to think: What are the educational gains of thinking skills programs and are they sustained over time?

Rosie Freedman	Is precision teaching an effective intervention for improving literacy and numeracy skills in UK schools?

Orla Hayes	How effective are cooperative learning programmes in promoting maths and science attainment and are any effects maintained over time?

Anna Hepworth	Does the Accelerated Reader Programme effectively develop reading comprehension skills in typically developing children and 'at risk' readers?

Lexi Johnston	Does the Use of Sign Language in the Classroom Improve the Receptive and Expressive Language Skills of Typically Developing, Hearing Children in the Early Years?

Andy Keay	Is there Evidence that Children's Reading Benefits Long-term from Reading Recovery?

Amy Law	Does a multisensory, dot-notation (Touch Math) method of teaching basic maths concepts improve the numeracy skills of children with mathematics difficulties?

Leanna Lopez	How effective is the explicit or direct teaching of story structure to 5-7 year olds in improving comprehension and narrative structure knowledge?

Sinead Neal	Are interventions that teach self-regulated learning strategies in mathematics effective in improving pupil's mathematical performance?

Stephanie Noble	How effective are phonological awareness interventions in developing young children's phonological sensitivity?

Pip Saffin	Is Cognitive Acceleration through Science Education (CASE) effective in raising the academic achievement of secondary school pupils?

Rosie Tamplin	Does effort attribution have a positive effect on children & young people's attainment?

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