Assessing the impact of Between the Lions and literacy manipulatives on the literacy skills of young children
An exploration of the impact of Between the Lions and generic literacy manipulatives on children's early literacy skills, based on assessments of a sample of 236 children in prekindergarten through second grade
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The Between the Lions American Indian Literacy Initiative research component: Report prepared for the United States Department of Education
An investigation of the influence of the Between the Lions television program on American Indian children’s early literacy skills, based on a two-year study of Head Start children from 11 aboriginal communities in New Mexico
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Between the Lions: Mississippi Literacy Initiative
An investigation of the effect of an early literacy program based on the “Between the Lions” television series on the reading skills of children from low-income communities (including Native American communities) in Mississippi
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Complexity, movement, and text familiarity: Correlates of visual attention to onscreen print
A study of the relationship of onscreen movement and text complexity in Between the Lions, an educational television program, to children's visual attention to onscreen text
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Effects of viewing the television program Between the Lions on the emergent literacy skills of young children
An examination of the impact of an educational television series featuring literacy instruction on the literacy skills of kindergarten and first-grade children
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Evaluation of the Between the Lions Mississippi Literacy Initiative: 2007-2008
An investigation of the effect of an early literacy intervention that uses Between the Lions television program and the accompanying books and activities on the reading skills of children, based on a sample of 296 children from 31 classrooms in 23 child care centers in Mississippi
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Evaluation of Between the Lions season 6: Characters and cutaways, the impact on appeal and story comprehension
A study of the appeal to young children of season six of Between the Lions, an educational television program, and of the impact of different program editing techniques on children's story comprehension
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Formative evaluation of Bark Park Place: Group school study report
An examination of the educational influence and appeal of Bark Park Place to young children, based on a sample of 67 children in preschool through second grade from 3 child care centers in Trenton, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Kansas City, Missouri
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Formative evaluation of Bark Park Place: Home visit report
An inquiry into the influence of exposure to Bark Park Place on parents? reading practices with children, based on home visits with 13 families from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Kansas City, Missouri
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Formative evaluation of Bark Park Place: Usability analysis
An evaluation of children?s understanding and ease of use of the Bark Park Place computer program, based on self-assessments of a subsample of 63 children from a larger study on the Bark Park Place television series
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"Healthy Minutes": Impact of Iowa Public Television's Healthy Minutes interstitials on preschool children
An comparison of children's attention, appeal, and comprehension of Iowa Public Television's Healthy Minutes public service announcements, in an observed sample of 116 preschool children who watched either the Healthy Minutes program or a Canadian health public service announcement program
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The impact of TV narratives on the early literacy skills of preschoolers
A study of the impact of television viewing on the story knowledge and narrative comprehension of young children, based on pre- and post-intervention assessments of preschool-age children in treatment and control child care classrooms
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Infant-directed media: An analysis of product information and claims
A categorical analysis the relationship between the claims on packaging and the educational content of a sample of 58 educational videos marketed to parents of infants
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Language promoting strategies embedded in infants' educational videos
A comparison of the language related content and instructional strategies of DVDs claiming to promote children's language skills and development with those that do not, based on an analysis of 54 children's DVDs targeted to children aged eighteen months and younger
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Observing the "ins" and "outs" of Between the Lions: Educational television and emergent literacy in preschoolers
A study of the literacy-related content of Between the Lions, an educational television program, and an analysis of the behavior and literacy development of 4 children who were observed while watching the show
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“Pinky Dinky Doo”: Evaluating the education impact and appeal of Pinky Dinky Doo on preschool children
An inquiry into the educational benefits of the television program Pinky Dinky Doo for low-income, based on a sample of 135 3- and 4-year-old children for a large, northeastern city who were randomly assigned to either a group that watched Pinky Dinky Doo, a group that watched the Zooboomafoo educational program, or a control group that received no television stimuli
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Summative evaluation of Between the Lions: A final report to WGBH Educational Foundation
An evaluation of the educational television program "Between the Lions" for its appeal to children and effectiveness as an early literacy tool, based on a sample of 164 children in the greater Kansas City area
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Summative evaluation of PBS Kids Island: Usability, outcomes, and appeal
A study of the impact on preschool and kindergarten children's early literacy development, as well as the ease of use and appeal, of either PBS Kids Island, a pre-literacy Web site, or PBS Kids Island with additional support materials, based on parent and child questionnaires and pre- and post-intervention assessments for 48 Kids Island, 45 Kids Island with support materials, and 43 control group children
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Summative evaluation of SUPER WHY!: Outcomes, dose, and appeal
A study of the impact of viewing SUPER WHY!, an educational television program, on the early language and literacy development of preschool children, based on pre- and post-intervention assessments of 106 treatment group and 65 control group children
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Vocabulary learning from an educational television program: Can children learn many new words and can print on screen help?
An investigation of the impact of viewing Martha Speaks, a children's program with integrated vocabulary instruction, on children's acquisition of new vocabulary words, based on a sample of 146 children from a city in the Northeast and a city in the Pacific Northwest divided into a treatment group that watched the program and a control group who did not
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