NFER and its partners have completed their independent evaluation of the first year (2020/21) of the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) Tuition Partners (TP) pillar and their impact evaluation of the Academic Mentoring (AM) pillar.
The delivery and evaluation of both pillars took place under extreme and unprecedented circumstances due to the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. There were different assessment arrangements for Year 11s (teacher assessed grades) and Key Stage 2 assessments (for Year 6 pupils) were cancelled. Findings should be interpreted in this context and with caution.
The evaluation of the Tuition Partners programme found that higher amounts of tutoring were related to better scores in English in primary schools, and with better grades for Year 11s in maths and English (teacher assessed grades/TAGs). In schools with higher proportions of pupil premium pupils taking part, the Tuition Partners programme had a positive impact on Year 11 grades (TAGs) for those pupils.
