Motivation and News-Seeking Behavior.

Autor/inn/en	Linnenbrink, Lisa; Anderman, Eric M.
Titel	Motivation and News-Seeking Behavior.
Quelle	(1995), (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Attention; Citizen Participation; Citizenship Education; Citizenship Responsibility; Comprehension; Controversial Issues (Course Content); Current Events; Intermediate Grades; Middle Schools; Perception; Public Affairs Education; Secondary Education; Social Problems; Social Studies + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Aufmerksamkeit; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Verstehen; Verständnis; Controversial issues; Kontroverse; Aktualität; Mittelstufe; Middle school; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Wahrnehmung; Sekundarbereich; Social problem; Soziales Problem; Gemeinschaftskunde
Abstract	This study focuses on students' acquisition of current events knowledge, attitudes about the news, and motivation to seek the news as it relates to news seeking behavior and studying current events in school. A current events knowledge test of 53 true/false items and a questionnaire assessing motivation strategy use toward current events were administered to 451 students from 5 midwestern high schools, 1 southeastern high school, and 1 middle school. A sub-sample of the students from two classrooms in one of the schools was further examined with teacher interviews on how they incorporate the study of current events into their classrooms and their goals for use of current events knowledge. In general, those students who watched the least amount of television news and read the news the least had the poorest responses on the current events knowledge test, news attitudes measures, and motivational measures, while those who watched television and read the news the most had the most adaptive responses on these measures. Contains 12 references. (EH)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01