Assessing Impact of Active Learning on Student Outcomes: Texas Initiatives for Children's Activity and Nutrition (ICAN)

NCT ID: NCT03087279

Last Updated: 2017-06-26

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

2716 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2012-08-15

Study Completion Date

2015-05-31

Brief Summary

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Background: Active learning is designed to pair physical activity with the teaching of academic content. This has been shown to be a successful strategy to increase physical activity and improve academic performance. The existing designs have confounded academic lessons with physical activity. As a result, it is impossible to determine if the subsequent improvement in academic performance is due to: (1) physical activity, (2) the academic content of the active learning, or (3) the combination of academic material taught through physical activity.

Methods / Design: The Texas I-CAN project is a 3-arm, cluster randomized control trial in which 28 elementary schools were assigned to either control, math intervention, or spelling intervention. As a result, each intervention condition serves as an unrelated content control for the other arm of the trial, allowing the impact of physical activity to be separated from the content. That is, schools that perform only active math lessons provide a content control for the spelling schools on spelling outcomes. This also calculated direct observations of attention and behavior control following periods of active learning.

Discussion: This design is unique in its ability to separate the impact of physical activity, in general, from the combination of physical activity and specific academic content. This, in combination with the ability to examine both proximal and distal outcomes along with measures of time on task will do much to guide the design of future, school-based interventions.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Physical Activity

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Texas I-CAN Active Math Lessons

Texas I-CAN Active math lesson in academic classroom

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Texas I-CAN!

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

physically active, academic lessons in the elementary school classroom

Texas I-CAN Active Language Arts Lessons

Texas I-CAN Active language arts lessons in academic classroom

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Texas I-CAN!

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

physically active, academic lessons in the elementary school classroom

Control

Regular, Sedentary academic lessons in math and language arts

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Texas I-CAN!

physically active, academic lessons in the elementary school classroom

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* students in 4th grade in a participating elementary school and their 4th grade teachers

Exclusion Criteria

* none
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University of Texas at Austin

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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John B Bartholomew, PHD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

UT Austin

References

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Bartholomew JB, Jowers EM, Errisuriz VL, Vaughn S, Roberts G. A cluster randomized control trial to assess the impact of active learning on child activity, attention control, and academic outcomes: The Texas I-CAN trial. Contemp Clin Trials. 2017 Oct;61:81-86. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2017.07.023. Epub 2017 Jul 22.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 28739542 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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1R01HD070741

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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