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Lometti, Guy E. – 1980
Children's learning from television was studied in 343 fourth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students who viewed an edited version of a television program and took a posttest. It was hypothesized that children would learn more plot-relevant information (central learning material) as they moved from concrete operational to formal operational…
Descriptors: Children, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education, Learning Experience
Hedinsson, Elias; Johnsson-Smaragdi, Ulla – 1978
This report describes the first wave of a research project investigating both the mass media behavior of adolescents in size and character of consumption, and their relations with the TV content consumed. This longitudinal study examines 11- to 15-year-olds through the use of specially developed scales and other traditional measures. Included are…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Commercial Television, Foreign Countries
1999
This report presents the data from a national, random sample survey designed by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Princeton Survey Research Associates (PSRA) and conducted by PSRA by telephone between April 6-26, 1999, when 1001 parents of children ages 2-17 were interviewed about their opinions of television, the V-Chip, and the TV ratings system.…
Descriptors: Children, Mass Media Effects, Mass Media Use, National Surveys
Child Research Service, Inc., New York, NY. – 1975
A total of 687 children, aged 7 through 11, was interviewed in fall, 1974 to determine the extent to which the Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine television programs communicated "pro-social" messages to its audience. Viewers of four different episodes of the Globetrotters were questioned about the program they had seen. Among the…
Descriptors: Basketball, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Commercial Television