Effects of Age, Education and Attitudes on Learning by Older Adults from a Documentary Programme
Titel:
Effects of Age, Education and Attitudes on Learning by Older Adults from a Documentary Programme
Auteur:
Owens, R. D.
Verschenen in:
Learning, media and technology
Paginering:
Jaargang 13 (1987) nr. 2 pagina's 95-113
Jaar:
1987
Inhoud:
Older adults are avid consumers of television, particularly informational/ educational programmes such as documentaries. This study investigated the extent to which three personological variables (age, level of education, and attitude towards television) affect the amount learned from a documentary by adults over 50 years of age. A content analysis technique was used to classify the narration of a documentary into main ideas and subordinate ideas, and a domain-referenced test was developed to measure the retention of main ideas, subordinate ideas and total ideas. The results indicated that education was the most reliable and important predictor of retention: as education increased, so did retention. Age was the second most important predictor, showing a consistent trend toward a mild negative relationship with retention. Attitude towards television was the least important predictor of retention but had a consistent trend towards a positive relationship with retention.
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