Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
1. Objectives and a Summary of the Major Findings
2. The General Objectives of "Sesame Street" and of Our Evaluation
3. Formative and Summative Evaluation Research in the Context of "Sesame Street"
4. Preliminary Descriptive Analyses of the First-Year ETS Data
5. The Effects of Encouragement-and-Viewing in the First-Year Evaluation
6. The Effects of Encouragement-and-Viewing in the Second Season of "Sesame Street"
7. The Effects of Viewing "Sesame Street" without Encouragement-to-View
8. The Probable Effects of "Sesame Street" on the National Achievement Gap
9. The Dollar Costs of "Sesame Street"
10. Placing a Value on "Sesame Street" and on Three National Objectives for Preschool Programs
11. Some Implications of Our Evaluation for Social Policy Relevant to "Sesame Street"
Some Thoughts on this Secondary Evaluation / Samuel Ball and Gerry Ann Bogatz
Index