NCT05090514

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

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

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 37 (actual)
• Sponsor: Stanford University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Years – 9 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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.

Conditions

• Reading

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
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.
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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-11-02
• Primary completion: 2022-06-01
• Completion: 2022-12-01
• First posted: 2021-10-22
• Last updated: 2022-09-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States