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Walker, James R. – 1985
In a study to identify types of mass media consumers, a Q-type factor analysis was run on respondent exposure to 90 categories of content within seven mass media (television, radio, recordings, motion pictures, newspapers, magazines, and books). The respondents were 116 seventh graders in Waterloo, Iowa, who were asked to keep daily diaries of…
Descriptors: Demography, Grade 7, Junior High Schools, Mass Media
EFFECTS OF INSERTED QUESTIONS IN FILMS ON DEVELOPING AN UNDERSTANDING OF CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTATION.
VUKE, GEORGE J. – 1962
THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY WAS THE DEVELOPMENT AND EXPERIMENTAL TEST OF TWO VERSIONS OF A SEVENTH-GRADE SCIENCE FILM. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES WERE (1) TO PRODUCE TWO VERSIONS OF A FILM, ONE OF WHICH CONTAINED INSERTED QUESTIONS, AND (2) TO COMPARE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE QUESTIONS IN DEVELOPING AN UNDERSTANDING OF CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTATION. ALL OF THE…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Research, Films, Grade 7
Jonassen, David H. – Educational Communication and Technology: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Development, 1979
Of particular interest in this study exploring a number of questions related to multi-image presentation of information and acquisition of a concept--e.g., classifying plants--was whether redundancy (i.e., additional positive examples) and an opportunity to view nonexamples as well as examples would be helpful to seventh-grade students.…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Audiotape Recordings, Cognitive Style, Concept Formation
Holliway, David; Karovsky, Penelope – 2001
The "Early Childhood/Teen Communications Project" conducted a pilot investigation of two grade 7-8 combination classes at a K-12 alternative school in Seattle, Washington. The students (approximately 55) were given the opportunity to work with media literacy materials over a four-week period for about 1.5 hours each day. This paper describes the…
Descriptors: Advertising, Grade 7, Grade 8, Instructional Effectiveness
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Direct linkL'Engle, Kelly Ladin; Pardun, Carol J.; Brown, Jane D. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2004
This article describes a protocol that was effective in collecting media-use pattern and sensitive health data from young adolescents. Students from three public school districts in the southeastern United States were recruited to participate in a study of the impact of the media on adolescents' sexual health. Using a 34-page mailed survey,…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Grade 7, Early Adolescents, Sexuality
English, Jill; Levin, P. Rachel – 1995
This teacher's guide provides an approach for teachers of grades 6-8 to teach media literacy and promote an informed public conversation about the impact of violent imagery in the culture today. Five key goals govern the program: (1) to reduce exposure to media violence; (2) to change the impact of violent images that are seen; (3) to locate and…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Community Cooperation, Conflict Resolution, Crime
