- Title Information
- Title
- The Play’s the Thing: Experimentally Examining the Social and Cognitive Effects of School Field Trips to Live Theater Performances
- Name
- Name Part
- Jay P. Greene
- Role
- Role Term (marcrelator)
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- author
- Name
- Name Part
- Heidi H. Erickson
- Role
- Role Term (marcrelator)
(authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut")
- author
- Name
- Name Part
- Angela R. Watson
- Role
- Role Term (marcrelator)
(authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut")
- author
- Name
- Name Part
- Molly I. Beck
- Role
- Role Term (marcrelator)
(authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut")
- author
- Subject
- Topic
- arts education
- Subject
- Topic
- theater education
- Subject
- Topic
- field trips
- Subject
- Topic
- randomized controlled experiment
- Subject (edworkp)
- Topic
- K-12 Education
- Subject (edworkp)
- Topic
- Education outside of school (after school, summer…)
- Subject (edworkp)
- Topic
- Multiple outcomes of education
- Subject (edworkp)
- Topic
- Program and policy effects
- Origin Information
- Date Created
- 2019
- Publisher
- Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
- Abstract
- Field trips to see theater performances are a long-standing educational practice, however, there is little systematic evidence demonstrating educational benefits. This article describes the results of five random assignment experiments spanning two years where school groups were assigned by lottery to attend a live theater performance, or for some groups, watch a movie-version of the same story. We find significant educational benefits from seeing live theater, including higher levels of tolerance, social perspective taking, and stronger command of the plot and vocabulary of those plays. Students randomly assigned to watch a movie did not experience these benefits. Our findings also suggest that theater field trips may cultivate the desire among students to frequent the theater in the future.
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Type of Resource
- text
- Genre (aat)
- grey literature
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- edworkingpapers.com
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- Identifier:
DOI
- 10.26300/gaq9-v892
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use and reproduction
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