Evaluation of Team Alphie, a computerised literacy programme for children with literacy problems

ISRCTN	ISRCTN84996648
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN84996648
Secondary identifying numbers	N/A

Submission date: 28/01/2015
Registration date: 28/04/2015
Last edited: 19/02/2020

Recruitment status: No longer recruiting
Overall study status: Completed
Condition category: Mental and Behavioural Disorders

Prospectively registered

Protocol

Statistical analysis plan

Results

Individual participant data

Plain English summary of protocol

A plain English summary can be accessed on the Education Endowment Foundation website:
http://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/projects/team-alphie/

Study website

Contact information

Dr Andy Biggart
Public

School of Education
Queen's University Belfast
Belfast
BT7 1HL
United Kingdom

ORCID ID	0000-0002-1643-3690

Study information

Study design	Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design	Interventional
Secondary study design	Randomised controlled trial
Study setting(s)	School
Study type	Other
Scientific title	Effect of a computerised literacy programme for children with literacy problems (Team Alphie): a randomised controlled trial
Study objectives	What is the impact of the programme, at post-test, on reading outcomes for participating students?
Ethics approval(s)	School of Education Research Ethics Committee, Queens University Belfast and the Ethics Committee of the Department of Education, University of York (UK), 10/05/2013
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied	Literacy problems
Intervention	Pupils taking part in the study will be randomly allocated to receive the: 1. Team Alphie programme (intervention): this is a 6-week, computer literacy-tutoring programme, which pupils use in pairs, monitored by a tutor; it combines cooperative learning, computer-assisted instruction, embedded multimedia and tutoring 2. English curriculum using standard practice (control)
Intervention type	Other
Primary outcome measure	Literacy will be measured at the end of the 6 week programme with the New Group Reading Test; key stage 2 reading result will form the baseline literacy measure.
Secondary outcome measures	None
Overall study start date	01/01/2013
Completion date	30/07/2014

Eligibility

Participant type(s)	Other
Age group	Child
Lower age limit	10 Years
Upper age limit	11 Years
Sex	Both
Target number of participants	240 pupils in 20 schools (approximately 12 pupils per school)
Total final enrolment	248
Key inclusion criteria	1. In year 6 (age 10–11 years old) of a participating primary school in England 2. Struggling with reading
Key exclusion criteria	1. Not in year 6 pupil at a participating school 2. Not struggling with reading
Date of first enrolment	01/01/2013
Date of final enrolment	30/05/2013

Locations

Countries of recruitment

Northern Ireland
United Kingdom

Study participating centre

Queen's University Belfast

School of Education
Belfast
BT7 1HL
United Kingdom

Sponsor information

Queen's University Belfast
University/education

University Road
Belfast
BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland
United Kingdom

"ROR"	https://ror.org/00hswnk62

Funders

Funder type

University/education

Education Endowment Foundation

No information available

Results and Publications

Intention to publish date	31/05/2015
Individual participant data (IPD) Intention to share	No
IPD sharing plan summary	Stored in repository
Publication and dissemination plan	1. Study results will be published in a report to the funder, the Education Endowment Foundation (expected date of publication is May 2015). 2. The report will be open-access at http://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/toolkit/publications/
IPD sharing plan

Study outputs

Output type	Details	Date created	Date added	Peer reviewed?	Patient-facing?
Results article	results	01/06/2015	19/02/2020	Yes	No

Editorial Notes

19/02/2020: The following changes have been made:
1. Publication reference added.
2. The final enrolment number has been added from the reference.
19/07/2017: No publications found in PubMed, verifying study status with principal investigator.