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Download full textShively, Joe E.; And Others – 1975
A total of 699 Appalachian families with preschool children were surveyed to gather information on the availability and use of television, radio and telephone in their homes. The survey was designed to assess the practicality of using television as one of the components of the Marketable Preschool Education (MPE) Program, an extension of the…
Descriptors: Cable Television, Color, Commercial Television, Early Childhood Education
Salomon, Gavriel – 1974
The airing of "Sesame Street" on Israeli television in 1971 provided an opportunity to study the effects of a sophisticated media format on a media naive audience. Samples of 93 kindergarteners and 224 second and third graders of mixed socioeconomic background were pre- and posttested for cognitive skills and media literacy. After…
Descriptors: Achievement, Demography, Early Childhood Education, Educational Research
Minor, Michael J.; Bradburn, Norman M. – 1976
A survey project carried out by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) measured the effects of viewing the television series, "Feeling Good." The survey was one of four studies undertaken to assess the impact of the "Feeling Good" series. This project was a field experiment designed to ascertain the effects of viewing of…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Educational Television, Females, Field Studies
2001
"Boys Will Be Boys," the television program featured in this videotape and teaching guide, explores the turmoil experienced by a young woman, a high school sophomore, who becomes the victim of sexual harassment at school. The program can be a springboard for discussing the larger issues of sexual harassment and women's rights today and…
Descriptors: Critical Viewing, Curriculum Enrichment, Daily Living Skills, Educational Television
KIDSNET, Washington, DC. – 2001
"The Writing on the Wall," the television program featured in this videotape and teaching guide, focuses on three suburban teenagers who deface with anti-Semitic graffiti, the property of a rabbi, a holocaust survivor, and the Jewish community center and synagogue. The teenagers, tried and convicted, are spared a harsh sentence when the…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Anti Semitism, Critical Viewing, Curriculum Enrichment
Fenichel, Emily, Ed. – Zero to Three, 2001
"Zero to Three" is a single-focus bulletin of the National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families providing insight from multiple disciplines on the development of infants, toddlers, and their families. Noting that America's babies and toddlers live in a world full of television sets, VCRs, computers, videogames, and interactive…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Cognitive Development, Computer Games, Computers
Peer reviewedRolandelli, David R.; And Others – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1992
Compares visual processing of televised information by 85 Japanese and 111 U.S. kindergarten and grade 4 students. As predicted, Japanese children use a more visually oriented television processing strategy in understanding program content. U.S. children score higher on a comprehension test, perhaps because of cultural differences in testing…
Descriptors: Audience Response, Child Rearing, Comprehension, Cross Cultural Studies
David, Marianne; Maguire, Maureen – 1983
Designed to teach students to become selective and discriminating users of television who will be better able to affect changes in programming, this bulletin offers a series of suggested activities and lesson plans for teachers to use in planning instructional programs around television for students in kindergarten through grade 9. This course of…
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Class Activities, Educational Television, Elementary Education
Noble, Grant – 1979
Australian studies show that television assists in the socialization of immigrants, changing and shaping their self-images and perceptions of reality and fostering their interpersonal communication skills. Studies conducted to evaluate the introduction of television have found that television helps in the vocabulary development of young children.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Associative Learning, Communication Skills, Educational Television
National Association of Educational Broadcasters, Washington, DC. – 1967
THIS 47 PAGE BIBLIOGRAPHY HAS BEEN DEVELOPED AS AN AID TO LEGISLATORS, THEIR RESEARCH STAFFS, INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING, AND TO INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHERS INTERESTED IN THE AREA OF INTER-INSTITUTIONAL TELEVISION. SECONDARY SOURCES IN SOME INSTANCES HAVE BEEN INCLUDED FOR EASE IN LOCATING UNPUBLISHED MATERIALS OR FOR SUMMATIONS AND REVIEWS OF…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Broadcast Television, Closed Circuit Television, Communications
Children's Television Workshop, New York, NY. – 1971
As a follow-up to a 1970 study, interviews were conducted in 1971 in four ghetto communities (Bedford Stuyvesant, East Harlem, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.) to determine the extent to which Sesame Street was reaching preschool age children as compared to the previous year. The program's success was demonstrated by continued growth in audience,…
Descriptors: Blacks, Early Childhood Education, Educational Television, Elementary School Students
PDF pending restorationLaosa, Luis M. – 1974
A formative research project sought to test viewer reactions to two pilot programs of the Carrascolendas series. A total of 360 Puerto Rican-American, Cuban-American, Mexican-American, and Anglo-American children in grades 1, 2, and 3 were observed as they watched the programs. Results indicated that there was high eye contact during the…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Attention, Bilingual Students, Comprehension
Seels, Barbara; And Others – 1996
This paper summarizes an integrated research study which was conducted of the literature on learning from mass media and instructional television. The body of literature reviewed encompasses 17,500 citations from the Educational Resources Information Clearinghouse (ERIC) and 1,882 citations from Psychological Abstracts. Major research areas…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Beliefs, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
PDF pending restorationCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1992
These hearing transcripts present testimony concerning S. 3134, the Ready to Learn Act, which is designed to expand the production and distribution of educational and instructional video programming; support educational programming for preschool and elementary school children, parents, child care providers, and educators of young children; and…
Descriptors: Administrators, Advocacy, Child Rearing, Childrens Television
Abelman, Robert – 1992
This monograph examines the relationship between intellectually gifted children and television and summarizes research on this subject, primarily conducted by Project KIDVID at Cleveland (Ohio) State University. After an introduction and discussion of the available scientific literature, research-supported facts and related questions are presented…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Age Differences, Child Rearing, Childrens Television
