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Season One Evaluation: PEEP Television Series Final Report

December 1, 2004 | Media and Technology
In this Summative Evaluation, Goodman Research Group, Inc. found that PEEP effectively models science inquiry skills, including predicting, observing, and problem solving. Children who were exposed to PEEP interacted with materials in ways that were significantly more grounded in science inquiry than children who were not. By a margin of 71% to 22%, for example, children who watched PEEP were more likely to initiate a question to be explored. Children exposed to PEEP were also more likely to use problem-solving strategies (76% compared to 34%) and more likely to solve the problems they initiated (74% compared to 31%). In addition, children who watched PEEP made more observations than children who did not (47% compared to 16%) and were more likely to initiate predictions (33% compared to 7%).

TEAM MEMBERS

  • Jennifer Beck
    Evaluator
    Goodman Research Group, Inc.
  • Jennie Murack
    Evaluator
    Goodman Research Group, Inc.
  • WGBH
    Contributor
  • 2013 08 09 Irene Goodman
    Evaluator
    Goodman Research Group, Inc.
  • Citation

    Funders

    NSF
    Funding Program: ISE/AISL
    Award Number: 0104700
    Funding Amount: 5911050
    Resource Type: Evaluation Reports
    Discipline: Education and learning science | General STEM | Nature of science
    Audience: Pre-K Children (0-5) | Evaluators
    Environment Type: Media and Technology | Broadcast Media

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