Sesame Street RevisitedRussell Sage Foundation, 26 sept. 1975 - 428 pages In the course of its television lifetime, "Sesame Street" has taught alphabet-related skills to hundreds of thousands of preschool children. But the program may have attracted more of its regular viewers from relatively affluent homes in which the parents were better educated. Analyzing and reevaluating data drawn from several sources, principally the Educational Testing Service's evaluations of "Sesame Street," the authors of this book open fresh lines of inquiry into how much economically disadvantaged children learned from viewing the series for six months and into whether the program is widening the gap that separates the academic achievement of disadvantaged preschoolers from that of their more affluent counterparts. The authors define as acute dilemma currently facing educational policymakers: what positive results are achieved when a large number of children learn some skills at a younger age if this absolute increase in knowledge is associated with an increase in the difference between social groups? |
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3 Formative and Summative Evaluation Research in the Context of Sesame Street | 45 |
4 Preliminary Descriptive Analyses of the FirstYear ETS Data | 63 |
5 The Effects of EncouragementandViewing in the FirstYear Evaluation | 107 |
6 The Effects of EncouragementandViewing in the Second Season of Sesame Street | 155 |
7 The Effects of Viewing Sesame Street without EncouragementtoView | 193 |
8 The Probable Effects of Sesame Street on the National Achievement Gap | 267 |
9 The Dollar Costs of Sesame Street | 311 |
10 Placing a Value on Sesame Street and on Three National Objectives for Preschool Programs | 323 |
11 Some Implications of Our Evaluation for Social Policy Relevant to Sesame Street | 363 |
Some Thoughts on this Secondary Evaluation Samuel Ball and Gerry Ann Bogatz | 387 |
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achievement gap advantaged children analysis at-home children at-school audience Ball and Bogatz Bogatz and Ball Boston caused learning ceiling effect chil child Children's Television Workshop cognitive correlations costs covariance Daniel Yankelovich dren Durham economically advantaged economically disadvantaged children educational effects of viewing encouraged and nonencouraged encouraged children encouragement-and-viewing encouragement-to-view estimate ETS evaluations first-year goals heavy viewers homes increase indicated interaction Joan Cooney knowledge learning gains learning tests Letters lighter viewers Los Angeles measure of viewing nonencouraged children nonviewers Parent Questionnaire measure Peabody IQ percent Philadelphia Phoenix posttest Grand Total posttest means Posttest Parent Questionnaire Posttest Pretest Posttest preschool programs pretest and posttest pretest Grand Total Pretest Posttest Pretest problem public television quartiles regression regular viewers relationship sample scores second-year Sesame Street Test statistically significant subtests Table tion treatment variables variance viewing groups Viewing Logs viewing measure viewing Sesame Street Winston-Salem