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Thirty Million Words-Early Childhood Educator (TMW-ECE)

NCT04027673 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 432

Last updated 2020-04-09

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Summary

The purpose of the proposed study is to determine the efficacy of an eight-module interactive, online multi-media professional development course on our target population: individuals over the age of 18, who have no more than a bachelor's degree, and are employed as early childhood educators of children between the ages of 0 and 3. Outcomes of interest include changing caregiver knowledge and beliefs about child development, and encouraging the use of strategies provided to strengthen early learning environments. The investigators will also measure how participants interact with the online course in order to determine which features help and hinder the online professional development process.

The investigators hypothesize that the TMW-ECE intervention will be effective in improving educator beliefs and knowledge of their role in children's foundational brain development, and increasing the frequency of behaviors that are known to support children's language and cognitive development among our target population.

Conditions

  • Language Development

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

TMW ECE Curriculum

The TMW-ECE program will constitute the treatment arm of the study (Cohort A) which will complete the multi-media online professional development course beginning Summer 2019.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Chicago

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Dana Suskind, MD · University of Chicago

  • Kristin Leffel, AB · University of Chicago

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-06-03
Primary Completion
2020-03-30
Completion
2020-03-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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