Are you teaching KS3 science?

Peer tutoring is highlighted by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) as an intervention producing positive impacts on both tutors and tutees attainment, with an estimated effect of five additional months progress.

This free course is designed to provide you with all the resources you require to implement a six week peer tutoring programme in your school. The course will show you how to set up a small scale trial in your school, whereby we create a comparator group which receives the intervention after the intervention group.

At the end of the intervention, you are able to submit an anonymised data file so that our stats team can run an analysis for the impact in your school. We then use an innovative approach to aggregating the data to create a cumulative meta-analysis, which lets us know how the intervention is working nationally and internationally. 

The course is ideal as evidence for your CPD, whilst also providing a cost effective intervention for your catch-up programmes.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Chapter 1 - Introduction

    • Welcome and overview

    • Pre-programme survey

    • Peer Tutoring - A brief look at the evidence

    • Final thoughts before you start

  • 2

    Chapter 2 - Setting up your intervention

    • Chapter and intervention overview

    • Protocol summary

    • Peer Tutoring KS3 Biology (Living Organisms) Protocol 0001

    • Logistical barriers to consider

    • Why do we use a comparator group in your evaluation?

    • Data file

    • Pre- and post-assessment

    • How to randomise your groups
  • 3

    Chapter 3 - Implementing your intervention

    • Intervention overview

    • Intervention resources
  • 4

    Chapter 4 - Data analysis and impact report

    • What are the next steps when you have marked the post-assessments?
  • 5

    Chapter 5 - Reflection

    • How has the programme worked in your school?

    • End of programme survey
  • 6

    Peer Tutoring KS3 Science Biology (Living organisms) PCM evidence base

    • PCM evidence base