Too Little or Too Much? Actionable Advice in an Early-Childhood Text Messaging Experiment

Autor/inn/en	Cortes, Kalena E.; Fricke, Hans; Loeb, Susanna; Song, David S.; York, Benjamin N.
Titel	Too Little or Too Much? Actionable Advice in an Early-Childhood Text Messaging Experiment
Quelle	In: Education Finance and Policy, 16 (2021) 2, S.209-232 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1557-3060
Schlagwörter	Early Childhood Education; Computer Mediated Communication; Parent Participation; Preschool Children; Program Effectiveness; Information Dissemination; Literacy; Scores; Parent School Relationship; Texas (Dallas) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Computerkonferenz; Elternmitwirkung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Informationsverbreitung; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Parent-school relationship; Parent school relationships; Parent-school relationships; Parent-school relation; Parent school relation; Eltern-Schule-Beziehung
Abstract	Text-message-based parenting programs have proven successful in improving parent engagement and preschoolers' literacy development. This study seeks to identify mechanisms of the overall effect of such programs. It investigates whether actionable advice alone drives previous studies' 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 on the child's pre-intervention literacy skills. For children in the lowest quarter of the pretreatment literacy assessments, providing one example of an activity improves literacy scores by 0.19 standard deviations less than providing three texts. Literacy scores of children in higher quarters are marginally higher with only one tip per week than with three tips per week. We find no positive effects of increasing to five texts per week. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01