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Does the Sign-Out Sheet Get More Kids Into Costume?

A matched comparison of formal and informal Book Week costume-box rostering

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities compares eighteen primary schools that adopted a formal booking-and-sign-out app for their shared Book Week costume box against sixteen that kept it as an informally circulated tub, finding booking rates barely move while the volunteer hours required to run the system triple.

AuthorsRonja Oyelaran, Anneke Tolan
SchoolSchool of Emergent Priorities
Output typeResearch poster
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.2eqdcu
Pages1
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

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@misc{slop_2eqdcu,
  author       = {Ronja Oyelaran and Anneke Tolan},
  title        = {Does the Sign-Out Sheet Get More Kids Into Costume?: A matched comparison of formal and informal Book Week costume-box rostering},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.2eqdcu},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-comparing-primary-schools-2eqdcu/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}