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Pasnik, S.; Moorthy, S.; Llorente, C.; Hupert, N.; Dominguez, X.; Silander, M. – Education Development Center, Inc., 2015
The study presented here addresses the question of how time spent viewing and playing with PBS KIDS educational, non-commercial media at home, in family settings, can foster positive outcomes for children and parents/caregivers. The study focused on PEG+CAT, a first-generation transmedia program designed to promote children's mathematics and…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Mathematics Skills, Access to Education, Public Television
Pasnik, Shelley; Moorthy, Savitha; Hupert, Naomi; Llorente, Carlin; Silander, Megan; Dominguez, Ximena – Education Development Center, Inc., 2015
The study presented here addresses the question of how time spent viewing and playing with PBS KIDS educational, non-commercial media at home, in family settings, can foster positive outcomes for children and parents/caregivers. The study focused on PEG+CAT, a first-generation transmedia program designed to promote children's mathematics and…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Mathematics Skills, Access to Education, Public Television
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Riley, William; Obermayer, Jami; Jean-Mary, Jersino – Journal of American College Health, 2008
Objective: The authors developed a smoking cessation program using mobile phone text messaging to provide tailored and stage-specific messages to college smokers. Participants and Methods: The authors recruited 31 daily smokers who desired to quit from a college campus and asked them to use an Internet and mobile phone text messaging program to…
Descriptors: Smoking, College Students, Computer Mediated Communication, Health Promotion
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Brouse, Corey H.; Basch, Charles E. – Health Education Journal, 2004
A key challenge facing cancer educators is the extent to which effective programmes can be widely disseminated and implemented. Differences between target populations with respect to social, psychological, and educational characteristics, as well as the social and economic context make it difficult to replicate "cookbook" approaches. Tailoring of…
Descriptors: Health Education, Cancer, Telecommunications, Educational Methods