The Role of Media Use in the Classroom and at Home in Improving News Consumption and Political Knowledge

Autor/inn/en	Vercellotti, Timothy; Matto, Elizabeth C.
Titel	The Role of Media Use in the Classroom and at Home in Improving News Consumption and Political Knowledge
Quelle	In: Journal of Political Science Education, 12 (2016) 2, S.151-168 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1551-2169
DOI	10.1080/15512169.2015.1067624
Schlagwörter	Quasiexperimental Design; Mass Media; Periodicals; News Media; Social Studies; Teaching Methods; Political Issues; Knowledge Level; Parents; Politics; Program Effectiveness; High School Students; Civics; Hypothesis Testing; Student Surveys; Control Groups; Experimental Groups; Journal Articles; History Instruction; Individual Characteristics; Information Sources; New Jersey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Massenmedien; Periodical; Journal; Zeitschrift; Fachzeitschrift; Periodikum; Nachrichtenwesen; Gemeinschaftskunde; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Politischer Faktor; Wissensbasis; Eltern; Politik; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Staatsbürgerkunde; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Schülerbefragung; Journal article; Zeitschriftenaufsatz; History lessons; Geschichtsunterricht; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Information source; Informationsquelle
Abstract	Concerns regarding political knowledge and participation among young people continue to spur research into effective civic instruction. Through a quasi-experiment involving 361 students in four high schools as well as the parents of 152 of these students, we measured the effects of incorporating news magazines and discussion into social studies curricula on students' levels of news consumption and political knowledge. We found that reading and discussing news at home and in school positively affected news consumption and political knowledge for students who were not in honors or advanced placement courses. This was also true for political knowledge when taking into account parents' knowledge of politics. Students outside of honors and advanced classes, and whose parents had low levels of knowledge, were among those most likely to benefit from the intervention. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01