Publications

This final report summarises the findings from the Coaching Early Conversation Interaction and Language (CECIL) Project, which started in September 2020.

An infographic illustrating the evaluation by IES of the CECIL programme's modelling in Merseyside. The goal of the Coaching Early Conversation Interaction and Language (CECIL) programme is to tackle early gaps in children’s communication and language skills by providing support for high-quality practice in early years settings, with a focus on settings in areas marked by disadvantage. The file is downloadable in .pdf format at the bottom of this page.

An infographic illustrating the evaluation by IES of the CECIL programme's modelling in Merseyside.

The goal of the Coaching Early Conversation Interaction and Language (CECIL) programme is to tackle early gaps in children’s communication and language skills by providing support for high-quality practice in early years settings. This report covers the theory of change, methodology and findings of the evaluation of the CECIL programme's modelling in Merseyside.

This updated report covers the Flexible Phonics intervention which aims to help reception class teachers and teaching assistants deliver new strategies designed to optimise the teaching of reading to all reception-age pupils.

The goal of the Coaching Early Conversation Interaction and Language (CECIL) programme is to tackle early gaps in children’s communication and language skills by providing support for high-quality practice in early years settings.

This report covers the Flexible Phonics intervention which aims to help reception class teachers and teaching assistants deliver new strategies designed to optimise the teaching of reading to all reception pupils (aged four to five years).

This report presents the findings from a joint evaluation by the Institute for Employment Studies and the Sutton Trust of the Closing the Vocabulary Gap (CVG) project. This evaluation report covers the first two years of delivery up to the end of the 2021/22 academic year.

Phase 2 of the CECIL project adds further sustainability work provided to the settings to help embed the project and this is evaluated in this report under the title Nottinghamshire CECIL sustainability programme.

Tips by Text is a behavioural nudge intervention, which uses texts sent to parents to try to improve child outcomes in literacy, numeracy and social development. The research includes an evaluation of outcomes and a process and implementation evaluation.