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Forbes, Norma – 1984
The report summarizes information from a 5-year study, begun in 1977, of the effects of the introduction of commercial and educational television to isolated communities in rural Alaska. It is intended primarily for residents of villages which participated in the study, for the staff of the schools which were involved, and for Alaskan policy…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, Cognitive Development, Commercial Television
Forbes, Norma; And Others – 1984
A 5-year study of the social and cognitive effects of the introduction of commercial and educational television on rural Alaskan children utilized a variety of social and cognitive measures given to both longitudinal and cross-sectional samples of grade-school children: in 1977, when no participating village received television; in 1979, when half…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, Cognitive Development, Commercial Television