Involving Parents in their Children’s Education- FCAP

Last registered on October 06, 2014
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Trial Information

General Information

Title
Involving Parents in their Children’s Education- FCAP
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0000200
Initial registration date
October 06, 2014

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First published
October 06, 2014, 1:20 PM EDT

First published corresponds to when the trial was first made public on the Registry after being reviewed.

Locations

Country
Chile
Region

Primary Investigator

Name
Francisco Gallego
Affiliation
PUC-Chile
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Other Primary Investigator(s)

PI Name
Francisco Gallego
PI Affiliation
JPAL
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Additional Trial Information

Status
On going
Start date
2012-05-07
End date
2016-12-31
Keywords
Education
Additional Keywords
JEL code(s)
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Abstract
There is wide agreement regarding the importance of (broadly defined) family characteristics for children and youth's behavior, with a strong emphasis in what regards to academic achievement, but there are few papers that have studied the mechanisms that support this relation. This study aims to test one of the potencial mechanisms, parental involvement, through the impact evaluation of a program in Chile (Programa Aprender en Familia). The program aims to increase parental involvement by focusing in the school, by working out norms and attitudes toward a better relation with the families, and in parents, through teaching sessions with the aim of improving parenting skills. The experimental evaluation design will allow us to isolate the causal effect of the program on parental involvement and children's cognitive and non-cognitive skills.
External Link(s)

Registration Citation

Citation
Gallego, Francisco and Francisco Gallego. 2014. "Involving Parents in their Children’s Education- FCAP." AEA RCT Registry. October 06. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.200-1.0
Former Citation
Gallego, Francisco and Francisco Gallego. 2014. "Involving Parents in their Children’s Education- FCAP." AEA RCT Registry. October 06. https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/200/history/2814
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Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
Intervention Start Date
2012-07-01
Intervention End Date
2015-12-01

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
Parent's and student's outcomes.
Primary Outcomes (explanation)
Parental Involvement (attendance to parents-teacher meetings, parental style and family relationships, parental educational support), student's non-cognitive skills (self esteem, attentional, behavioral, and emotional/mental health problems, risky behaviors), student's cognitive skills (academic achievement in SIMCE and comprehensivre reading test).

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
The intervention has randomly assigned 26 of 63 schools to receive the program; the remaining 37 schools serve as comparison group. Measurements will be implemented as a baseline (before the program starts), within the program’s second year and after the third year (when the program officially finishes).
Experimental Design Details
Randomization Method
Public Lottery.
Randomization Unit
School
Was the treatment clustered?
Yes

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
63 schools
Sample size: planned number of observations
21000 students aprox
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
26 schools treatment, 37 schools control
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
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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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