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Fifteen Minutes, As Instructed

A Survey of How Parents Complete a Primary-School Reading Log Against the Fortnightly Minutes Target That Set the Number

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities surveys 236 parents and guardians across nine primary schools on how they complete a fortnightly home-reading log, finding logged minutes heap sharply at each school's own printed target and that agreement between a night's logged entry and the same parent's later recall of whether reading occurred falls away as self-reported completion method moves from timed to backfilled.

AuthorsRuna Adegoke, Anouk Mensah
SchoolSchool of Emergent Priorities
Output typeResearch paper
FundingAnticipatory Capability Fund: Redrafting the School Newsletter's Term-Ahead Column Before the Copy-Paste Sets In ($196,742)
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.2xup4k
Pages5
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

Cite as

@misc{slop_2xup4k,
  author       = {Runa Adegoke and Anouk Mensah},
  title        = {Fifteen Minutes, As Instructed: A Survey of How Parents Complete a Primary-School Reading Log Against the Fortnightly Minutes Target That Set the Number},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.2xup4k},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-surveying-parents-about-2xup4k/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}