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Feeley, Joan T.; And Others – 1979
To update the findings of a 1971 study, a study seeking to identify the interest patterns and media preferences of fourth and fifth grade children was undertaken in 1978. The responses of 731 children to an interest inventory were subjected to separate factor analytic and analysis of variance procedures. The former were used to cluster…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Childhood Interests, Demography, Elementary Education
Download full textFeeley, 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
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
