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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 The Electric Company An investigation of the effect of watching the Electric Company television show on children's vocabulary learning, based on a sample of 200 children placed in either a viewing group at home, a viewing group after school, a viewing and gaming group after school, and a control group |
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Summative evaluation of Martha Speaks: Project Description An examination of the effect of the Martha Speaks television program on children's vocabulary, based on the ongoing assessments of children aged 4 through 7 years old from more than 85 families at 2 sites, a major city in the Pacific Northwest and a major city in the Northeast |
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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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Television impact on children's vocabulary knowledge: A meta-analysis A description of a synthesis of studies on the relationship between children's watching of television programming and vocabulary acquisition |
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Television's impact on children's reading skills: A longitudinal study A description of a longitudinal investigation into the relationship between the use of educational television programs early in the academic year and kindergartners' early reading skills |
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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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