Evaluation of the 5Rs programme (a revision year approach to GCSE maths resits)

INTERVENTION: Participants are randomised at the setting level to follow the 5Rs approach or business‐as‐usual ‐ masking to treatment not possible in this educational environment. In the intervention condition, teachers receive one day of training at the beginning of each term. The 5Rs programme will be delivered as a replacement for the standard GCSE resit lessons for an entire academic year. It is anticipated that this will be around 3 hours a week. CONDITION: GCSE maths resit lessons ; Not Applicable PRIMARY OUTCOME: Resit GCSE Maths raw mark from November 2019 or May/June 2020, which will be obtained directly from settings when available (about two months after exams). Results from the latest sitting will be used in the analysis, i.e. combining results from November and June as appropriate. SECONDARY OUTCOME: ; 1. GCSE maths grade is measured by achievement of grade 4 or above at resit GCSE (ie. achieving a pass) as a binary measure obtained from the exam board via the settings (November 2019 or June 2020, whichever is more recent); 2. GCSE attendance is measured using present/absent at each of the three papers obtained from the exam board via the settings (November 2019 or June 2020, whichever is more recent); 3. Student attitude towards mathematics is measured using an adapted version of the Attitudes Toward Mathematics Inventory (ATMI) in April/May 2020; INCLUSION CRITERIA: Post‐16 education and training providers in England are eligible to take part in the trial. This includes FE colleges, sixth form colleges, school sixth forms, university technical colleges (UTCs) and independent training providers. Settings are eligible to participate if the following criteria are met: 1. They have a minimum of 15 students aged 16‐19 re‐taking GCSE maths in the year 2018‐2019 and expect this number to stay constant or rise in 2019‐2020. 2. GCSE students are enrolled by September 2019 for the full academic year. Students will be eligible to participate providing they have not already achieved a pass grade at GCSE maths (ie not achieved grade 4 or above) and are studying to re‐sit GCSE maths in November 2019 or Summer 2020. Age: 16‐19. All genders.