Ready to Read: Ready to Read: A School-Based Intervention to Promote Growth Mindset and Reading

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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Primary Aim/Objective: To determine if a school-based intervention promoting reading with a growth mindset framework improves student reading achievement in the intervention group compared to a wait-list comparison group of children in kindergarten through 2nd grade. Secondary Aim/Objective: To determine if students whose parents endorse a fixed mindset with regard to student reading abilities show more improvement post-intervention than parents that endorse growth mindset. Secondary Aim/Objective: To determine if more parents endorse growth than fixed mindset post-intervention.

Official Title
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Ready to Read: A School-Based Intervention to Promote Growth Mindset and Reading

Conditions
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Reading

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: Reading and Growth Mindset
* Behavioral: Wait-list Control


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: all children in kindergarten through 2nd grade and their caregivers at the targeted elementary school Exclusion Criteria: Less than kindergarten or above 2nd grade

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 5 Years
Maximum Age: 9 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Treatment
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Interventional Model Description: Demonstration project in an underserved, urban school with children randomized to intervention group or wait-list control group.
Masking: Single


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: Reading and Growth Mindset Intervention Group<br>Parents and students receive a packet of age-appropriate books and educational materials on how to read together/promote reading with their child using growth mindset strategies and where to find other reading materials. Parents also receive 2 weekly text messages with tips and reminders to read with their child daily for 20 minutes over the course of 8 weeks. The messages contain a link to a secure Redcap survey to log days and time spent reading the prior week. | Behavioral: Reading and Growth Mindset<br>* Parents and students receive a packet of age-appropriate books and educational materials (flyer/handouts, link to educational video) on how to read together/promote reading with their child using growth mindset strategies and where to find other reading materials. Parents also receive 2 weekly text messages with tips and reminders to read with their child daily for 20 minutes over the course of 8 weeks. The messages contain a link to a secure Redcap survey to log days and time spent reading the prior week.<br>|
| Active Comparator: Wait-list Control Group<br>Parents and students receive a packet of age-appropriate books at the same time as the intervention group, but do not receive specialized instruction or reminders to read. | Behavioral: Wait-list Control<br>* Parents and students receive a packet of age-appropriate books at the same time as the intervention group, but do not receive specialized instruction or reminders to read or any information on growth mindset and reading.<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Change in Reading Achievement on the Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System | Change in standardized reading achievement scores collected by the school district to assess reading comprehension, fluency, phonemic awareness. | Administered at baseline and through intervention completion, an average of 8 weeks | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Change in Parent Growth Mindset as applied to Reading | Change in parent growth mindset as assessed by 6 mindset questions based on prior studies on reading abilities in children, assessed on a 6-point Likert scale. Modeled after the classic Growth Mindset of Intelligence questionnaires | Administered at baseline and through intervention completion, an average of 8 weeks | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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Reading, Growth Mindset