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Children's Content Interest--A Factor Analytic Study.

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Feeley, Joan T. – 1972

Recognizing that interest is essential to motivation, this study was designed both to identify and describe the content interest patterns and media preferences (print and television) of middle-grade children and to determine any relationship between these interests and sex, race, or socioeconomic status (SES). An inventory was administered to 250…

Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Content Analysis, Intermediate Grades, Media Selection

Interest Patterns and Media Preferences of Boys and Girls in Grades Four and Five.

Feeley, Joan T. – 1972

Interest patterns and media preferences (print and television) of boys and girls in grade four and five were studied by subjecting their responses to an interest inventory to separate factor analytic and analysis of variance procedures. The former procedures were used to cluster degree-of-interest responses into larger groupings that could be…

Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Childhood Interests, Elementary Education, Factor Analysis