Parents and caregivers in the intervention group initiated more conversations before and after viewing and facilitated more science conversations than the comparison group¶
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q2 i? Parents and caregivers in the intervention group initiated more conversations before and after viewing episodes and facilitated more science conversations relative to the comparison group. → Digital Promise 2021
Evidence¶
Digital Promise 2021¶
Digital Promise, The Jim Henson Company, Concord Evaluation Group, & Curious Media. (2021). Designing an app to support families' joint engagement with media: Design principles and lessons from research. [White Paper]. Digital Promise. https://doi.org/10.51388/20.500.12265/121
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Digital Promise field study, a quasi-experimental study with an intervention and comparison condition (26 families). The report states that "Parents and caregivers in the intervention group initiated more conversations before and after viewing episodes, relative to parents and caregivers in the comparison group" and that they "facilitated more science conversations, relative to parents and caregivers in the comparison group." No effect size is printed.
"Parents and caregivers in the intervention group initiated more conversations before and after viewing episodes, relative to parents and caregivers in the comparison group"
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Families who used the app's features more extensively reported stronger changes in joint media engagement and science — related
- Children in the intervention group initiated a higher proportion of science-related conversations before and after episode viewing, while concept understanding differences were not detected between groups — related
- Parents in the intervention condition tended to initiate more conversations before and after episode viewing than comparison parents, with no difference during viewing — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
- Children in the intervention group initiated a higher proportion of science-related conversations before and after episode viewing than comparison children — related
- Intervention families had a larger proportion of science-related conversations than comparison families, most strongly after episode viewing (64% vs 32%) — related
- Intervention families used the talk moves asks-a-question and checks-for-understanding more frequently than comparison families, especially after viewing — related
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Parents and caregivers in the intervention group initiated more conversations before and after viewing and facilitated more science conversations than the comparison group |
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Parents and caregivers in the intervention group initiated more conversations before and after viewing and facilitated more science conversations than the comparison group |
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2021 |
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2026-10-20 |
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