Sesame Street Growing Together Evaluation: Randomized Controlled Trial of a Professional Development Course for Early Care and Education Teachers
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 620
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Teachers' Sense of Efficacy Scale
研究概览
简要总结
This study aims to evaluate the appeal and effectiveness of Sesame Workshop's Growing Together online professional development course.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Other
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •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
- •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
排除标准
- •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
- •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
- •Not willing to share an email address with researchers
- •Being unable to read English enough to understand course materials and/or surveys
- •Not being available during the timeframe of the study
结局指标
主要结局
Teachers' Sense of Efficacy Scale
时间窗: Up to 12 weeks
Teachers' self-efficacy in three areas: student engagement, instructional strategies, and classroom management.
Family Involvement Questionnaire (FIQ)
时间窗: Up to 12 weeks
Multi-dimensional parent-report scale of family involvement in early childhood education, reflecting levels of involvement of parent activity across home and classroom contexts.
Activities with Your Child
时间窗: Up to 12 weeks
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.
Family and Provider/Teacher Relationship Quality (FTPRQ)
时间窗: Up to 12 weeks
Self-report measure (teachers and parents) of the quality of family and teacher relationships.
次要结局
- Devereux Early Childhood Assessment for Preschoolers, Second Edition (DECA-P2)(Up to 12 weeks)