Sesame Street Growing Together Evaluation

NCT04631328 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 1903
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 620
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study aims to evaluate the appeal and effectiveness of Sesame Workshop's Growing Together online professional development course.

Conditions

Family Engagement

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (4)

• Family and Provider/Teacher Relationship Quality (FTPRQ)

  Self-report measure (teachers and parents) of the quality of family and teacher relationships.

  Up to 12 weeks

• Teachers' Sense of Efficacy Scale

  Teachers' self-efficacy in three areas: student engagement, instructional strategies, and classroom management.

  Up to 12 weeks

• Family Involvement Questionnaire (FIQ)

  Multi-dimensional parent-report scale of family involvement in early childhood education, reflecting levels of involvement of parent activity across home and classroom contexts.

  Up to 12 weeks

• Activities with Your Child

  Parent report of the frequency with which they or someone in their family engaged in a variety of activities with their child; adapted from the Head Start FACES studies parent interviews.

  Up to 12 weeks

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Devereux Early Childhood Assessment for Preschoolers, Second Edition (DECA-P2)

  Up to 12 weeks

Study Arms (2)

Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

Growing Together program

Other: Growing Together

Control

NO INTERVENTION

Interventions

Growing Together OTHER

Growing Together is a suite of free, online research-informed professional development modules to help early childhood educators promote deeper family engagement and enrich teacher-parent interactions.

Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Teachers:
• Work in an eligible center with a director who has agreed for the center to participate in the study
• Serve as the lead teacher in a classroom with at least 3 four year olds (can be a co-teacher and can teach a mixed age class)
• Have access to reliable, high-speed internet
• Have an email address that can be shared with researchers
• Read English enough to understand course materials and/or surveys
• Not have previously accessed the Growing Together course
• Be available during the timeframe of the study
• Parents:
• Have a child who is 4 years old or about to be 4 years old during the weeks of the course enrolled in a classroom at least 3 days in a typical week with a teacher interested in participating in the study
• Have access to reliable, high-speed internet
• Have an email address that can be shared with researchers
• Read English enough to understand course materials and/or surveys
• Be available during the timeframe of the study

You may not qualify if:

• Teachers:
• Working in an ineligible center
• Working in a center with a director who has not agreed for the center to participate in the study
• Not being a lead teacher
• Not teaching at least 3 four year olds
• Not having access to reliable, high-speed internet
• Not willing to share an email address with researchers
• Being unable to read English enough to understand course materials and/or surveys
• Having previously accessed the Growing Together course
• Not being available during the timeframe of the study
• Parents:
• Not having a child who is 4 years old or about to be 4 years old during the weeks of the course
• Not having a child enrolled in a classroom at least 3 days in a typical week
• Not having a child enrolled in a classroom with a teacher interested in participating in the study
• Not having access to reliable, high-speed internet

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Public Health Management Corporation: lead
• Sesame Workshop: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

PHMC

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19102, United States

Location

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 22, 2020
• First Posted: November 17, 2020
• Study Start: October 31, 2019
• Primary Completion: July 2, 2020
• Study Completion: July 2, 2020
• Last Updated: November 17, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-11

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)