the good news

Our research is showing that timely practice does significantly increase the attainment of low attaining learners.

Whole class teaching (Goddard 2020)		Intervention tutoring
Summary	Research Proposal	Summary	Case study

The 3 year trial involved classes from 2 consecutive years, The trial covered each the 2 year period of their GCSE course. Learners from the lowest attaining set close the learning gap. In many cases learners over take their peers in the set above within a year.		The trials were for a half term (6 to 8 weeks) The groups were the lowest attaining maths learners in year 7 or 8 Learners retain many times the new learning in intervention v regular maths lessons Groups of 5 to 9 learners in intervention versus 19 to 22 in maths lessons Please see example questions of progress in 12 hours tutor intervention

not so good news

A valid criticism of our research is the small sample size.

We had a few problems, lockdown and an upgrade to our data base, but we decided to use this as an opportunity to upgrade timely practice to

be able to be used in more situations e.g. alternative provision, small group intervention etc
be able to be used by teachers and teaching assistants who are not maths specialists,
be quicker to begin to use,
be able to compare progress with classes/ parts of the year where the same class, with the same teacher teaches with/without timely practice.

We still offering free trials in the academic year 2022-23 in exchange for comparative data for the following categories:-

a shorter term trial comparing retained learning gain with business as usual lessons (for 3 to 6 weeks) and timely practice (for the same duration)
- assessing current learning in the topics to be taught,
- teaching some units using the school's existing teaching and assessment regimen,
- teaching other units as advised by timely practice, and using timely practice to schedule regular retrieval practice,
- assessing the retained learning at least 6 weeks after the last teaching/school's regular assessment of the units of the trial, to calculate the retained learning gain
a GCSE retake trial - comparing grade grain with past cohorts and current cohort