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Product: The research team will develop a new version of the INSIGHTS Into Children's Temperament intervention, delivered as a product through a web-based portal that is accessible to early childhood educators and parents across delivery modalities (whiteboards, computers, tablets, and smartphones). The content for New INSIGHTS will be the same as the original version and will focus on children learning about the temperaments of four puppet characters, Coretta the Cautious, Gregory the Grumpy, Fredrico the Friendly, and Hilary the Hard Worker. Core components of the new product will include videos featuring Emmy-and-Grammy-Award-winning puppeteers using television-sized puppets to portray the temperament of characters and provide educators and parents examples for how to use the puppets; animated storyboards for classroom implementation, including animated graphics that can be printed-out; dilemma-resolving activities for different problem-behaviors; online games; and a website with professional development and learning resources. The project team will also develop a corresponding parenting application to support at-home implementation.
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Company Website: www.insightsintervention.com
Video Demonstration of the Existing Evidence-Based Intervention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5Gs5W0HR0w
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After development is complete, the researchers will assess the usability, fidelity, and feasibility of the new product with 200 children (and parents) and educators in 10 Kindergarten and Grade 1 classrooms. The researchers will examine whether children (and parents) are able to use New INSIGHTS as intended, and whether teachers and parents believe that New INSIGHTS would be practical for their peers to use in real-world applications. Following the completion of this study, the team will carry out another study to assess pre-to-post outcomes of 100 children (and parents) and 10 educators using the New INSIGHTS. This research will measure children's growth in social and emotional competencies and will compare results to those reported in prior efficacy trials to understand whether New INSIGHTS is as effective as the prior version. The study will employ validated measures, including the Parent Daily Report (PDR), the Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory, the Woodcock-Johnson Test of Achievement, and the Leiter-R. Researchers will also conduct a cost analysis using the CostOut tool to determine the cost per student needed to implement and use New INSIGHTS.
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