The determination of children's interests in radio drama

Abstract

In the main experiment two programs, one a dramatized story of a city girl who brought home a stray dog, the other a fantastic story, "The Mystery of the Space Ship," were presented as usual radio broadcasts to a group of 40 children in grade 5B. The purpose of the experiment was to determine which types of program the children appeared more interested in. A later experiment involved a similar technique with 90 pupils in two classes of the fourth grade. In each experiment observations of the pupils were made. The children appeared about equally interested in the two programs. Different observers were found to have 67% agreement in 80% of the cases. The technique, rather than the tentative results, was believed to be the important contribution of the paper. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)