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Chapter 10: Evaluating Family Learning
Chapter 10: Evaluating Family Learning
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Chapter Overview
Chapter Overview
This chapter focuses on evaluation of family learning initiatives. In the context of a strong ethical framework for collaborative evaluation, the chapter defines the term and considers approaches from a large-scale, funded randomised control trial, to a teacher’s journal. Case studies highlight evaluative questions, eliciting parents’ and children’s views, and how change can be evidenced.
Chapter Objectives:
Chapter Objectives:
To define ‘evaluation’.
To consider the ethics of evaluation.
To provide examples of effective evaluation approaches.
Chapter 10 Resources
Chapter 10 Resources
Further Reading
Further Reading
Hannon, P., Nutbrown, C. and Morgan, A. (2020): Effects of extending disadvantaged families’ teaching of emergent literacy, Research Papers in Education, 35:3, 310-336, DOI: 10.1080/02671522.2019.1568531
This free to download article details the Randomised Control Trial of the REAL family literacy programme including measures of children’s literacy, and how take-up, participation and drop out were evaluated.
Nutbrown, C., Bishop, J., and Wheeler, H. (2015) Co-production of family literacy projects to enhance early literacy development Journal of Children’s Services 10 (3) 265-279. DOI 10.1108/JCS-02-2015-0011
This free to download article describes small-scale co-produced projects developed and evaluated by practitioners.
Hannon, P. (1995). Literacy, Home and School: Research and practice in teaching literacy with parents. London: Falmer Press
Peter Hannon’s opening section on evaluation is taken further in Chapters 8, 9 and 10.
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