Literacy, social justice and inclusion : a large-scale design experiment to narrow the attainment-gap linked to poverty
Ellis, Sue and Rowe, Adele (2020) Literacy, social justice and inclusion : a large-scale design experiment to narrow the attainment-gap linked to poverty. Support for Learning, 35 (4). pp. 418-439. ISSN 1467-9604 (https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9604.12324)
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Abstract
This paper describes the development and use of a tool designed to support educators to use a broad range of professional knowledge to enable inclusive literacy teaching that delivers social justice and narrows the attainment gap associated with poverty. The tool encourages teachers to formally recognise and act on a wide range of evidence about students as learners and to design their literacy curriculum and teaching according to this evidence. The research operationalised a Capabilities approach to inclusion and a design experiment methodology, working with 48 schools, 650 teachers and 12,783 students. A paired sample T‐test showed a significant improvement in standardised age scores and that the ‘tail of underachievement’ shortened for all social groups. Goodman and Kruskal's gamma showed a weakening of the relationship between poverty and attainment. This gives cause for cautious optimism that attainment gaps associated with economic disadvantage can be narrowed if educators act on a wider range of evidence in literacy teaching, and if education researchers develop and trial tools to support them.
ORCID iDs
Ellis, Sue ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6521-5892 and Rowe, Adele;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 74212 Dates: DateEvent30 November 2020Published2 October 2020Published Online23 September 2020AcceptedSubjects: Education Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Strathclyde Institute of Education > Education Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 12 Oct 2020 14:09 Last modified: 12 Dec 2024 10:29 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/74212