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Structure and strategies in children's educational television: the roles of program type and learning strategies in children's learning.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  20840242     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Educational TV has been consistently linked to children's learning. In this research, educational TV characteristics were identified, coded, and tested for their influence on children's program-specific comprehension and vocabulary outcomes. Study 1 details a content analysis of TV features including a program's macrostructure (i.e., narrative or expository) and learning strategies embedded in the macrostructure that support learning in print-based contexts. In Study 2, regression analyses were used to predict outcomes involving 71 second and third graders (average age=7.63 years). Strategies were categorized as organizing, rehearsing, elaborating, or affective in function. Outcomes were uniformly higher for narrative macrostructures. Strategies used in narratives predicted relatively homogenous relations across outcomes, whereas strategies in expositories predicted quite heterogeneous relations across outcomes.
Authors:
Deborah L Linebarger; Jessica Taylor Piotrowski
Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Child development     Volume:  81     ISSN:  1467-8624     ISO Abbreviation:  Child Dev     Publication Date:    2010 Sep-Oct
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2010-09-15     Completed Date:  2010-12-22     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0372725     Medline TA:  Child Dev     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  1582-97     Citation Subset:  IM    
Copyright Information:
© 2010 The Authors. Child Development © 2010 Society for Research in Child Development, Inc.
Affiliation:
Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 3620 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. dlinebarger@asc.upenn.edu
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Child
Comprehension*
Education
Educational Status
Female
Humans
Knowledge
Learning*
Male
Television*
Vocabulary

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