Evaluating the Parents and Children Together (PACT) pre-school home reading programme: how it was used and the impact on children's language skills. [PACT-3]
- Conditions
- Educational development of pre-school children aged 3-4 with programme specifically targetting language skills, home learning environment and school readiness.Not Applicable
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN52533968
- Lead Sponsor
- Durham University
- Brief Summary
2024 Funder report results see attached file ISRCTN52533968 PACT3-final-report 01May2024.pdf (added 12/07/2024)
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 43
School level inclusion criteria
To be included schools must:
1. Be state- funded and have a nursery which is administratively part of the school setting
2. Be located in areas with high scores on the Indices of Multiple Deprivation (including Warrington, Bolton, Rochdale, Lancashire, Tameside, and Blackpool)
3. Agree to all study requirements outlined in the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which describe their commitment to the delivery of PACT and participation of a minimum number of families (n=4) in the trial and administration of research measures
4. Agree to and sign a project specific Data Sharing Agreement (DSA)
Child level inclusion criteria
To be included the child must:
1. Be 3 or 4 years old by September 2021 and attend a participating nursery in the year before they start school
2. Have someone within a their household who is able to access the resources by having a basic level of English.
3. Not have a sibling in the same target year group
4. Not have a suspected or diagnosed developmental or learning difficulty
5. Not be part of a family which took part in a previous PACT trial
School level Exclusion Criteria
1. Schools that do not have a nursery within the school
2. Schools out of area for the project (outside of the North West)
3. Schools who are unable to recruit at least 4 children to take part in the trial
4. Non- statefunded schools
Child level Exclusion Criteria
1. Children who are not due to start school in following September
2. Children who do not have someone with a basic level of English in their household
3. Children who have a sibling in the same target year group
4. Children with a suspected or diagnosed developmental or learning difficulty
5. Children where the family has previously taken part in a PACT trial
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method anguage skills are measured using the LanguageScreen assessment which will be collected by a member of staff in the child's nursery at baseline (September 2021) and immediately after the intervention delivery period (June/July 2022) as well as 11 months post intervention (May/June 2023). The primary outcome measure will be a latent variable created using 4 LanguageScreen subscale standardised scores (Expressive vocabulary, Receptive Vocabulary, Listening Comprehension and Sentence Repeition) as in the PACT-2 trial also funded by EEF.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method