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来源类型 | Publication |
Too Little or Too Much? Actionable Advice in an Early-Childhood Text Messaging Experiment | |
Kalena E. Cortes; Hans Fricke; Susanna Loeb; David S. Song | |
发表日期 | 2018 |
出版年 | 2018 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Text-message based parenting programs have proven successful in improving parental engagement and preschoolers’ literacy development. The tested programs have provided a combination of (a) general information about important literacy skills, (b) actionable advice (i.e., specific examples of such activities), and (c) encouragement. The regularity of the texts – each week throughout the school year – also provided nudges to focus parents’ attention on their children. This study seeks to identify mechanisms of the overall effect of such programs. It investigates whether the actionable advice alone drives previous study’s results and whether additional texts of actionable advice improve program effectiveness. The findings provide evidence that text messaging programs can supply too little or too much information. A single text per week is not as effective at improving parenting practices as a set of three texts that also include information and encouragement, but a set of five texts with additional actionable advice is also not as effective as the three-text approach. The results on children’s literacy development depend strongly on the child’s pre-intervention literacy skills. For children in the lowest quarter of the pre-treatment literacy assessments, only providing one example of an activity decreases literacy scores by 0.15 standard deviations relative to the original intervention. Literacy scores of children in higher quarters are marginally higher with only one tip per week. We find no positive effects of increasing to five texts per week. |
主题 | Technological Innovations in Education |
子主题 | Child Development ; Parenting |
URL | https://cepa.stanford.edu/content/too-little-or-too-much-actionable-advice-early-childhood-text-messaging-experiment |
来源智库 | Center for Education Policy Analysis (United States) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/491833 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Kalena E. Cortes,Hans Fricke,Susanna Loeb,et al. Too Little or Too Much? Actionable Advice in an Early-Childhood Text Messaging Experiment. 2018. |
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