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Download full textRobinson, H. Alan; And Others – 1974
A study of the current expressed reading interests of children in the first two years of school conducted in ten countries--Austria, Canada, England, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Panama, Sweden, and the United States--is reported in this paper. Over 2,000 children drew pictures about what they would best like to read or have read to…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, Grade 1, Grade 2
Beentjes, Hans W. J. – 1987
This comparison of students' learning from reading books and from watching television uses Gavriel Salomon's model of learning effects, which is based on the amount of mental effort invested (AIME) in a medium as determining how deeply the information from that medium is processed. Mental effort, in turn, is predicted to depend on two perceptions…
Descriptors: Books, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Developed Nations
