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- Title
An evaluation of Headsprout early reading as an online parent‐mediated intervention for primary school children.
- Authors
Gillespie, Emma; Markham, Victoria; Tiernan, Aoife Mc
- Abstract
Due to the Coronavirus pandemic and lengthy absences from the classroom, there is a need for large‐scale remedial programs to support young children to "catch‐up" on literacy and numeracy skills. A stratified randomized controlled trial was used to evaluate the Headsprout Early Reading (HER) program as a parent‐mediated digital literacy intervention. A between‐groups design compared differences in reading‐dependent outcome measures for 36 children assigned to one of three intervention groups: withsupport, withoutsupport, and waitlist‐control. Children completed significantly more episodes when parents received implementation support from the researcher compared to the withoutsupport group. Children receiving Headsprout instructions demonstrated marginally greater gains than the waitlist‐control group in posttest outcome measures; however, differences in reading outcomes were not significant between groups at posttesting. The current research provides tentative support for HER and importantly, highlights the importance of providing support for parents implementing interventions at home.
- Subjects
LITERACY; CORONAVIRUSES; SCHOOL children; READING; COVID-19 pandemic
- Publication
Behavioral Interventions, 2023, Vol 38, Issue 3, p653
- ISSN
1072-0847
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bin.1955