Research project
Assessing core language skills at the beginning of secondary school in the Born-in-Bradford cohort
- Start date: 15 September 2020
- End date: 14 September 2021
- Funder: Bradford Opportunity Area
- Primary investigator: Cecile De Cat
- Co-investigators: Ekaterini Klepousniotou
- External co-investigators: Ekaterini Klepousniotou
- Postgraduate students: Lydia Gunning (postdoctoral researcher)
Value
£136,000
Partners and collaborators
Centre for Applied Education Research
Description
We will assess the core grammar skills, reading comprehension and narrative abilities of Year 7 pupils in Bradford. This will allow us to investigate the impact of deprivation and having English-as-Additional-Language on language outcomes, as a first step towards providing a benchmark to inform schools’ language assessment at the onset of KS3. We will compare different testing modalities (face-to-face online, face-to-face in person, or automatised online) and evaluate the impact of testing modality on pupils’ engagement and performance.