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ERIC Number: EJ249393
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1981
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Out-of-School Television and Schooling: Hypotheses and Methods.
Hornik, Robert
Review of Educational Research, v51 n2 p193-214 Sum 1981
Hypotheses that have related home television use to schooling are categorized. Available evidence about overall effects suggests a small effect on reading growth, hints at a tendency for socially advantaged children to be most vulnerable to effects, and is largely uniformative as to the validity of particular explanatory hypotheses. (Author/GK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Literature Reviews, Media Research, Reading Skills, Television Viewing
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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