The Tips by Text intervention did not produce significant improvements in children's early reading-related skills (YARC) relative to control¶
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q3 i? Students whose parents received Tips by Text did not perform significantly better on early reading measures than the control group. → O'Reilly 2026
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O'Reilly 2026¶
O'Reilly, F., Loeb, S., Farrell, A., & Scerif, G. (2026). Supporting Parents to Support Children: A U.K. Randomized Controlled Trial Testing a Text Message Intervention to Cultivate the Home Learning Environment. Journal of Educational Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000973
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Secondary analysis replicating the appointed evaluators' intention-to-treat impact analysis of the two-arm RCT, using multilevel mixed-effects models on the YARC primary outcome. The article reports no significant improvement in reading-related skills; no effect size for this null finding is printed, so no magnitude is reported.
"Our analysis found no significant improvements in reading-related skills or socioemotional outcomes nor any meaningful differences in response to the program based on these subgroups."
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Related Claims¶
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- Parent-delivered READY4K! text messages improve preschool children's early literacy performance — reports the opposite
- Text-message alerts to parents about incomplete middle-school homework raise student performance — related
- Parent Involvement Improves Early Reading — reports the opposite
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The Tips by Text intervention did not produce significant improvements in children's early reading-related skills (YARC) relative to control |
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The Tips by Text intervention did not produce significant improvements in children's early reading-related skills (YARC) relative to control |
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