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

September 8, 2022 updated by: Irene M. Loe, MD, Stanford University

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

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.

Study Overview

Status

Active, not recruiting

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

37

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • California
      • Stanford, California, United States, 94304
        • Stanford University

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

5 years to 9 years (CHILD)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

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

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: TREATMENT
  • Allocation: RANDOMIZED
  • Interventional Model: PARALLEL
  • Masking: SINGLE

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: Reading and Growth Mindset Intervention Group
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
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.
ACTIVE_COMPARATOR: Wait-list Control Group
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
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.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Change in Reading Achievement on the Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System
Time Frame: Administered at baseline and through intervention completion, an average of 8 weeks
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
Time Frame: Administered at baseline and through intervention completion, an average of 8 weeks
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

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Stanford University

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (ACTUAL)

November 2, 2021

Primary Completion (ACTUAL)

June 1, 2022

Study Completion (ANTICIPATED)

December 1, 2022

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

September 28, 2021

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

October 8, 2021

First Posted (ACTUAL)

October 22, 2021

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (ACTUAL)

September 10, 2022

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

September 8, 2022

Last Verified

September 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 61892

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.

Clinical Trials on Reading

Clinical Trials on Reading and Growth Mindset

Search Similar Trials

Sponsors and Collaborators

Medical Conditions

Drug Interventions

CROs by country

CROs in South Korea

Conditions

Rare Diseases

Drug Interventions

Dietary Supplements

Sponsor/Collaborators

Locations

Subscribe