Preferred social situation of contact shifts with grade level: younger children prefer family situations, fourth graders prefer being alone, and sixth graders prefer peers¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r? · q2
Currency · newest study 1953 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 1958: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Kindergarten and second grade children tend to prefer family situations, fourth grade children tend to prefer being alone, and sixth grade children tend to prefer being with peers. → Audio-Visual Communication Review 1953

Evidence¶

Audio-Visual Communication Review 1953¶

Audio-Visual Communication Review. (1953). Audio-Visual Communication Review, 158. https://eric.ed.gov/

q2 · i? · qualitative · r?

Interview study of boys in kindergarten, second, fourth, and sixth grades, reported in the digest as finding (b), Situation Appeal. The digest reports grade-linked preferences with the hedge "tend to prefer" for each grade level.

"Kindergarten and second grade children tend to prefer family situations. Fourth grade children tend to prefer being alone. Sixth grade children tend to prefer being with peers."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Age and Developmental Stage — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes

Related Claims¶

• Medium preference also shifts by grade, and comic books drop out because their appeal cannot outweigh the appeal of movies and television — related
• Particular mass media are characteristically connected with particular social situations of contact: television with the family, movies with peers, and comic books with being alone — related
• The link between children's affect index and their subsequent collaboration preferences varied with age, with the two proxies for social motivation becoming dissociated in older children — related