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

Reading Clinical Trial

Official title:

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Active, not recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05090514
• Other study ID #: 61892
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: November 2, 2021
• Est. completion date: December 2022

Study information

• Verified date: September 2022
• Source: Stanford University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Enrollment: 37
• Est. completion date: December 2022
• Est. primary completion date: June 1, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 5 Years to 9 Years

Eligibility

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

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Reading

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Reading and Growth Mindset
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.
• Wait-list Control
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.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Stanford University	Stanford	California

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Stanford University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	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	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