Sesame Street is presented as a model of research-based educational media whose curriculum-plus-formative-and-summative-research model drove measurable impact¶

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Subclaims¶

q1 i? The report attributes Sesame Street's educational success to a model combining curriculum development, formative research on children's learning needs, and summative research on ongoing impact, citing over a thousand studies of its impact. → sesame-1

Evidence¶

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Van Nostrand, P., Noakes, S., Shah, Z., & Luke Luna C. (2022, February). An overlooked indicator of edtech quality: The use of learning sciences research. Digital Promise. https://doi.org/10.51388/20.500.12265/150

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Literature-review narrative in which the report describes Sesame Street, citing Revelle (2003) and Truglio & Fisch (2001); the report attributes the underlying studies to those works.

"the team utilized a model that combined curriculum development, formative research (a look into prior literature to determine children's learning needs), and summative research (an examination of Sesame Street's ongoing impact on its viewers) to generate and refine the production process"

Discussion¶

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