Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Tallaght West Childhood Development Initiative’s Doodle Den Literacy Programme
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Abstract
literacy opens many doors that allow a person to achieve their full potential.Whether it is in terms of education, work or day-to-day life, literacy skills are fundamental in ensuring people have full access to and engagement with the various opportunities within their communities.Conversely, the lack of opportunity to develop literacy skills can close many doors and have a huge impact on not only a person's education, but also their overall well-being.We must therefore begin to look at ways of supporting literacy development, particularly those that target the domain of literacy development in the early years.Working with young children, early in their literacy development is important in giving them the fundamental literacy skills that they need to be successful.What is more is the need to evaluate the programmes we implement.Ensuring that we continue to deliver the best services to children and families is crucial, as is ensuring that the programmes we chose are meeting their aims and bringing about positive change.The following report focuses on one such intervention.Doodle Den was implemented by the Childhood Development Initiative (CDI) in Tallaght West Dublin in 2008.It was brought about through an extensive consultation process in which the community of Tallaght West identified the need to support children's literacy.The Doodle Den programme was then developed by those with expertise in terms of literacy development and the Irish education system.An after-school programme that focuses on fun activities and learning opportunities was developed.Since then, over 300 children living in Tallaght West have participated in Doodle Den.As you read through the report, you will be struck not only by the level of rigour with which the programme was evaluated, but also with the results.Doodle Den has been shown through the evaluation process to make a real change in the children's overall literacy levels.Furthermore, this literacy programme has also shown gains for children in terms of their behaviour, with children showing an increase in concentration levels, reduction in disruptive behaviours and reduction in bullying.The evaluators also found an increase in home reading and family library activity.As Laureate na ng, it is inspirational to see how the Doodle Den programme has boosted children's confidence and their love of reading in such a positive way.This unique and proactive initiative is to be applauded; it has made an intrinsic and positive impact on the lives of the children who took part.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.043 | 0.026 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it