The government can’t say whether schools taking part in an £850,000 edtech support scheme improved because of the help they received or because the wider sector became more “confident” with technology.
An evaluation of the second year of the edtech demonstrator programme found “no statistical difference” in results between schools that received support in four of the five areas and those that did not.
In fact, schools that received help in most of the specific areas that formed part of the £850,000 scheme actually improved less than those that did not receive support with the same thing.
The Department for Education has published an evaluation by the Government Social Research department of the second year of the scheme, which was run by the United Church Schools Trust (UCST), the sponsor of United Learning.
