NCT05296252

Attention and Achievement: A Mind Wandering Investigation

Attention and Achievement (A Subproject Affiliated With the Texas Center for Learning Disabilities or TCLD)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 53 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Houston · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 11 Years – 15 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study assesses the impact of mind-wandering on reading and math.

Detailed description

This study assesses the impact of mind-wandering on reading and math. Specifically 120 middle school student participants will receive descriptive measures (of achievement, attention and related factors including mind-wandering), and will receive a brief (\~30 min) lesson in reading and math (order counterbalanced). Participants will receive a brief pre-test, the lesson, and then a post-test on the reading and math outcomes. 75% of the participants will receive a brief manipulation that sets up the influence of mind-wandering, as well as redirects when probe-caught mind-wandering occurs. The remaining participants will receive only redirects, and only randomly. Among participants to receive the mind-wandering manipulation, an equal number will receive this only for reading, only for math, and for both reading and math.

Conditions

• Attention Disturbances

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	mind-wandering intervention	Participants in this condition receive a brief introduction to the potential impact of mind-wandering (before learning, proactive), and are redirected to lesson if "probe-caught" mind-wandering are endorsed (during learning, reactive)
BEHAVIORAL	mind-wandering comparison	Participants in this condition receive no introduction, and only redirection, and the redirection is random, not in reaction to mind-wandering

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-05-11
• Primary completion: 2022-06-15
• Completion: 2022-06-15
• First posted: 2022-03-25
• Last updated: 2023-05-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States