Education Endowment Foundation:Repeating a year
Repeating a year
Negative impact for very high cost based on limited evidence
Pupils who do not reach a given standard of learning join a class of younger students the following academic year.
Implementation costThe cost estimates in the Toolkits are based on the average cost of delivering the intervention.
Evidence strengthThis rating provides an overall estimate of the robustness of the evidence, to help support professional decision-making in schools.
Impact (months)The impact measure shows the number of additional months of progress made, on average, by children and young people who received the intervention, compared to similar children and young people who did not.
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months