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Evaluation of the effectiveness of the Childhood Development Initiative’s Doodle Den Literacy Programme, 2008-2011 Evaluation of the effectiveness of the Childhood Development Initiative’s Doodle Den Literacy Programme, 2008-2011 doi:10.7929/ISSDA/NCWMNA0083-00 Childhood Development Initiative (CDI) Centre for Effective Education, Queen's University Belfast ISSDAIrish Social Science Data Archive 2014 Social SciencesChildrenEducationEvaluationLiteracy EducationChildren The study was a randomised controlled trial of an after-schools literacy programme. In total, 623 children were randomly assigned to intervention and control groups over the three cohorts. 464 children, 472 teacher child assessments and 197 parents completed both pre- and post-test questionnaires.<br> Data were collected on three primary outcomes and seven secondary outcomes, utilising a combination of child, parent and teacher responses. The primary outcomes comprised: a direct measure of the children’s overall literacy ability, a teachers’ rating of general literacy ability and a children’s writing ability item. The secondary outcomes included: school attendance; literacy activity; library activity; children’s reading activities at home; concentration and behaviour in class; children’s attitudes to literacy; and parental attitudes to reading.<br> Other, contextual data include child gender; which of the three cohorts the child participated in; the ethnicity of the child; the level of family affluence/poverty; and the number of sessions attended by the child. 2008-092011-06 Ireland DublinTallaght Individual Pupils in Senior Infants class (aged 5-6 years) in Tallaght, Dublin: The main participants in the study were five and six year old children living and attending 7 different primary schools in an area of Dublin designated as an area of particular socio-economic disadvantage. Teachers in seven schools were asked to refer children to the Doodle Den programme on the basis of their needs as struggling beginning readers. Population group Face-to-face interview: PAPISelf-administered questionnaire: Paper ISSDA may only supply data for use in the EEA and adequacy decision countries. The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The data citation may be in the form on the dataset page or in the form required by the publication<br> Any work based in whole or part on resources provided by ISSDA, should acknowledge: "Evaluation of the effectiveness of the Childhood Development Initiative’s Doodle Den Literacy Programme, 2008-2011" and also ISSDA, in the following way: “Accessed via the Irish Social Science Data Archive - www.ucd.ie/issda”.<br> Biggart, A., Kerr, K., O’Hare, L. and Connolly, P. (2012) Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Childhood Development Initiative’s Doodle Den Literacy Programme. Dublin: Childhood Development Initiative (CDI). http://hdl.handle.net/10147/299260 Biggart, A., Kerr, K., O’Hare, L., Connolly, P. (2013). A randomised control trial evaluation of a literacy after-school programme for struggling beginning readers, International Journal of Educational Research, 62, pp. 129-140. 10.1016/j.ijer.2013.07.005 https://issda.ucd.ie/oai doi:10.7929/ISSDA/NCWMNA 2025-08-15T02:00:00Z ddi:codebook:2_5