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Download full textLeifer, Aimee D. – 1976
In an effort to identify critical evaluation skills, interview information is analyzed looking at four types of differences: differences between age groups, differences between children who did and did not change their attitudes after viewing an entertainment program, differences among those who ascribed varying degrees of credibility to…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Commercial Television
Forte, Michael – 1976
Two samples, the first consisting of 13 and 16-year-olds and adults, the second consisting of children from kindergarten, second and sixth grades, are interviewed to measure the cognitive processes used to evaluate the credibility of television content. Additional goals include measuring the relationship between the use of these cognitive…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Attitude Change, Children
Graves, Sherryl B. – 1976
While it may not be possible to change the content of television, it may be possible to modify its effects on children by making them more critical viewers. The objectives of this project are threefold: to identify processes children use, or can be taught to use, to discriminate the applicability to their own lives of varieties of television…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Commercial Television
McMahon, Barrie; Quin, Robyn – 1986
This paper outlines the writers' views on the domains and goals of media studies in different Australian states, and stresses the need to study the relationship between the media systems, products, and culture. An analytical model for teaching television studies is discussed, the aims of which are to: (1) introduce the study in a manner that will…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Cultural Influences, Curriculum Enrichment, Foreign Countries
Goldthorpe, Jeffrey – 1993
A study examined whether assigning students to write analytically in response to video texts can lead to students becoming more critical viewers of television. A 30-second television commercial was shown to a freshman composition class with limited visual literacy training and to a class without such media literacy training. Students in both…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Freshmen, Critical Thinking, Critical Viewing
Fernie, David – 1980
The purpose of this study was to investigate, in a broad sense, children's understanding of various types of people in two social domains: television and real life. Specifically, the study was designed to solicit information about (1) the physical and psychological abilities and vulnerabilities children would attribute to television characters and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Beliefs, Characterization, Comprehension
