Within and across modality comprehension of electronic media in children
✍ Scribed by Mary Alice White; Janine Pollack
- Book ID
- 104139949
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1985
- Weight
- 342 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0020-7373
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✦ Synopsis
A sample of sixth grade students, 74 boys and 78 girls, were presented with a 17-minute edited videotape showing one of the two subplots from an episode of a prime time commercial television programme. There were four comprehension measures; two were print measures: (1) ordering written descriptions of the narrative and (2) choosing those written scene descriptions which were essential to the telling of the story. Two tasks were pictorial: (3) ordering pictorial representations of the plot, and (4) choosing those six images that were essential to the story. Each subject received one print and one pictorial comprehension test, randomly assigned by groups. Scores on the verbal items were compared to scores on the pictorial items. The mean percentage for the verbal tasks was 63% correct and the mean percentage for the pictorial measures was 71% correct (p < 0.05). Results indicate that (1) electronically presented material can be assessed electronically for comprehension, and (2) the children produced a higher measure of understanding when tested within the modality of the medium (pictorial) than when tested across modality (print).