Assessing the classroom wide impacts of a mental health program for disruptive students.

Last registered on November 08, 2018
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Trial Information

General Information

Title
Assessing the classroom wide impacts of a mental health program for disruptive students.
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0001080
Initial registration date
April 22, 2016

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First published
April 22, 2016, 10:59 AM EDT

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Last updated
November 08, 2018, 5:39 PM EST

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Locations

Country
Chile
Region

Primary Investigator

Name
Clement DeChaisemartin
Affiliation
UC Santa Barbara
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Other Primary Investigator(s)

PI Name
Nicolas Navarrete
PI Affiliation
Warwick
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Additional Trial Information

Status
Completed
Start date
2015-03-16
End date
2016-12-31
Keywords
Education
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JEL code(s)
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Abstract
There has been a lot of research studying whether students can benefit from being exposed to cognitively more able peers. On the other hand, there has been much less research studying whether students can be hampered by disruptive peers. In this study we measure the effects of "Habilidades para la vida", a program aiming to improve the classroom behaviour of the most disruptive students in 2nd grade in Chile. We will study the effects of this program on disruptive students, on their teachers, and on their non-disruptive classmates.
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Registration Citation

Citation
DeChaisemartin, Clement and Nicolas Navarrete. 2018. "Assessing the classroom wide impacts of a mental health program for disruptive students. ." AEA RCT Registry. November 08. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.1080-8.0
Former Citation
DeChaisemartin, Clement and Nicolas Navarrete. 2018. "Assessing the classroom wide impacts of a mental health program for disruptive students. ." AEA RCT Registry. November 08. https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/1080/history/36992
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Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
Intervention (Hidden)
Intervention Start Date
2015-04-06
Intervention End Date
2015-07-10

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
Students' disruptiveness score according to their teachers; students' disruptiveness score according to our enumerators; students' absenteeism; students' test scores in Spanish and Mathematics; teachers' taste for their job; teachers' stress levels; teachers' effort to prepare lectures.
Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
We randomized the semester of the 2015 school year during which the HPV program took place in a sample of 172 classes. 89 received it in the first semester while 83 received it in the second semester. We measured students' and teachers' outcomes in the beginning of the first semester (before the treatment group started receiving the treatment) and in the beginning of the second semester (before the control group started receiving the treatment).
Experimental Design Details
Randomization Method
Randomization was done in office with a computer.
Randomization Unit
Classes
Was the treatment clustered?
Yes

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
172 classes
Sample size: planned number of observations
172 classes, 172 teachers, and approximately 6,000 students
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
89 treatment group classes, 83 control group classes.
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
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IRB

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

IRB Name
University of Warwick Research Ethics Committee
IRB Approval Date
2014-11-03
IRB Approval Number
111/13-14
Analysis Plan

Analysis Plan Documents

Letter+Junaeb+certifying+timing+of+data+transmission.pdf

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Uploaded At: November 08, 2018

Pre-analysis plan

MD5: a565369010ee341b4e2b5fc78c5fdb02

SHA1: 257531f85d0ea69df37c95165277593993e8ada9

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Intervention

Is the intervention completed?
No
Data Collection Complete
Data Publication

Data Publication

Is public data available?
No

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