Family mediation and children's cognition, aggression, and comprehension of television: A longitudinal study

Helping Viewers Learn from Television: a new approach to increasing the impact of the medium

“…This would suggest reading level was the most significant Helping Viewers Learn from Television 35 determinant, with sex and mediation (and see Singer et al (1988)) as lesser influences. When only the viewing score for news and the news-related measures were used, the only significant measures were reading level (t = 7.744, p< 0.0001) and attitudes to news (t = 2.450, p<0.05).…”

Failing our Children? The comprehension of younger viewers

“…There have been a number of approaches to the problems of increasing the skills of the viewer, and these are by no means similar in their theoretical approach or their practical implications (Buckingham, 1987(Buckingham, , 1990Buckle & Kelley, 1990;Dorr et al, 1983;Lloyd-Kolkin et al, 1980;Roberts et al, 1980;Rapaczynski, 1982;Singer et al, 1988). It is interesting that many of these approaches were predicated on the supposed negative effects of the medium (the contrast here with attitudes to reading are quite striking).…”

“…Much of the questionnaire arose from the pilot study. It was hoped the answers might throw some light on possible links between background factors and comprehension, posited by Singer et al (1988), and perhaps indicate the relationship between television comprehension and media use in general. In order to generate comparisons, media use was divided into three areas: television (including video), other media (films seen at the cinema and music), and print (books, magazines and newspapers).…”

“…Other factors needed to be clarified: does the comprehension of television relate to factors such as amount of use, mediation of television use (see Singer et al, 1988), or attitudes to television? Does it relate to the use of other learning media?…”

The Use of Television in Public Examinations

“…There is 62 P. Kelley every reason to suppose candidates confronted with television materials in these examinations attempt to answer the questions as fully as possible: with an important result hanging in the balance, there is considerable pressure on them to perform well. This kind of impetus is not present in tests carried out in traditional research projects into children's learning from television (Anderson, 1980;Roberts et al, 1980;Lloyd-Kolkin, 1982;Rapaczynski et al, 1982;Dorr et a/.,1983;Baron, 1985;Dorr, 1986;Kelley et al, 1987;Singer et al, 1988;Kelley, 1991). It is, therefore, of considerable interest to consider the results of the use of the television film, Flying into the Wind by David Leland, in the Cambridge Local Examination Syndicate O Level English Literature examination for the summer of 1986.…”