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Principal Investigators: Sandra Crespo, Shalom Fisch, Richard Lesh, Vince Melfi, & Sandra Sheppard
Funding: National Science Foundation
Dates: 2007-2009
Children's Learning from Multiple Media in Informal Mathematics Education. This is a collaborative project among WNET/KidzMedia, Michigan State University, and University of Indiana. This project entails a naturalistic and experimental phase. In the Naturalistic phase of the study (3 months) - data was collected from 400 students (Grade 3) with various types of instruments - in order to develop a picture of the ways in which children of this age group use the electronic media involved (Cyberchase TV show and associated website). In the experimental phase of the study (2 months) - 200 students from the naturalistic study participate in one of four experimental groups (including a control group) in order to test the effects of media use on the students' dispositions towards mathematics and their performance on various types of school mathematics tasks.
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