Wirkungsnachweis aus der Literatur

Mittelfristig (1 bis 5 Jahre)
Mikro (Individuum)
Sozial

limited positive impact of the programme of the academic attainment of participants

Veränderung der schulischen Leistungen und Perspektiven

The econometric analysis did not provide quantitative evidence that the Bridge Project was having either a negative or positive effect on the academic attainment of pupils. However, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence of an effect. The small sample size and large degree of variation unaccounted for by observed variables could easily disguise even moderate effects. Furthermore, the nil result reported here is, to an extent, a product of chance. When analysing the attainment of pupils at School A and B separately, it is found that School A pupils did better (mean = 0.34) and School B pupils did worse (mean = -0.58) than the control group (mean = -0.02). Both differences are statistically significant (p-values of 0.0003 and 0.0000007, respectively). In aggregate, these cancel each other out, resulting in the reported nil result.

Beschreibung der Aktivität

Jugendsozialarbeit
Bridge Project
The purpose of the Bridge Project is to promote musical excellence and strive for greater diversity amongst performers and audiences. The programme provides young children with weekly musicianship sessions and musical instrument lessons.; providing world class learning opportunities for children in inner-city schools and is dedicated to training an ambitious and talented team of music graduates to facilitate this.
Großbritannien
age 4 to 11 years
teilnehmende Kinder und Jugendliche

Evaluierung der Aktivität

The study looked at academic performance at Key Stage 1 in four categories: reading and writing, speaking and listening, mathematics and science. Given the importance of prior attainment, performance was measured relative to the children’s initial assessments in Reception. The “treatment group” was made up of children who had participated in the Bridge Project from Reception to the end of Year 2 (Key Stage 1). This comprised three cohorts of children at each of two primary schools, which we will call School A and School B. The “control group” was drawn from the National Pupil Database (NPD) in such a way that it comprised an anonymised random pupil from somewhere in London with the same observable characteristics as each child in the “treatment group”. A second analysis was also performed, looking at the academic performance of each cohort that participated in the Bridge Project and comparing it to the performance of the same year cohort in a number of schools with similar characteristics to School A and School B.
between 2 and 15 participants per group, total of 164 participants in the treatment group of the survey
2009/10, 2010/11 and 2011/12