Too many of today's children spend too much time indoors, often interacting with screens. They don't get enough physical exercise. Their learning about nature comes from books and teachers rather than from firsthand exploration of natural phenomena. These issues affect most modern American children, but they are particularly prominent among…

The 2012 Transmedia Demonstration Stations program study is part of the multiyear CPB-PBS "Ready To Learn" summative evaluation initiative by Education Development Center, Inc., (EDC) and SRI International (SRI). Through a series of related studies, the authors are documenting, and, whenever possible, measuring the impact of PBS KIDS…

As part of the "Ready to Learn" Initiative, Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), was charged with addressing the evaluation of Technological Enhancements for the outreach efforts of three producers: Out of the Blue's Super WHY! Technology Add-On; Sesame Workshop's The Electric Company School's Initiative Curriculum; and WordWorld's…

This final report of a project involving instructional television as part of elementary school science provides information relevant to the development of the science program based on a nine function model. These functions include the problem derivation and all the steps of research technique through implementation and recycling. The materials…

Explores two video instructional strategies for the foreign language classroom: advance organizers and captions in the target language. A set of classroom procedures are proposed that combine advance organizers and captions to teach English as a foreign language. (9 references) (Author/CK)

General session, small group activities, and on-site visits are represented in these papers from a conference which had the objectives of defining alternatives for systematic curriculum development, providing for the interchange of experiences in determining needs and instructional specifications for material production, and developing a plan for…

From 1956 to 1959, Chicago City Junior College offered courses for credit via open-circuit television. These courses, in the sciences, humanities, social sciences, and languages, attracted an average for-credit enrollment of 1,261 students each semester, two-thirds of them women. The average not-for-credit enrollment each semester was 3,550…

The instructional effectiveness of videotaped instruction in basic oral English to non-English speaking, adult speakers of Spanish is the focus of this report. A field testing program involving subjects who had been exposed to the films developed by the Southwestern Cooperative Educational Laboratory ascertains the effectiveness of the lessons in…

Suspecting that two-year public colleges are more committed to instructional media programs than four-year institutions and that higher educational institutions in general are lacking in commitment to media programs, the author surveyed thirty-four Kansas colleges and universities by using the Evaluative Checklist for Self-Evaluating an…

The purpose of this evaluation study was to determine students' and classroom personnel's perceptions of and reactions to "Villa Alegre"--a television series produced by Bilingual Children's Television, Inc. and shown in various locations in the U.S. during the fall of 1974--when utilized in a classroom setting in order to ascertain…

Discusses results of the evaluation of limited field trials for the use of telecast in schools in the United Kingdom (UK). Sixteen television sets capable of receiving teletext into schools all over the UK were used in this project. (HM)

The Human Relations Unit, in cooperation with the Bureau of Radio and Television, WNYE-TV, televised a teacher training workshop series. The overall aim of the course was to bring to the attention of the teacher the rich and relatively untouched resources to be found in the literature of minority groups of the United States. The course was…

The report describes field testing of an open collge project designed to adapt a collge-level media course for 19 homebound visually impaired, hearing impaired, and orthopedically disabled students. Student recruitment procedures and problems are described, as are staffing patterns of the project. Adaptation of the course, "The Art of Being…

This document is the tenth in a series of 12 early childhood program descriptions compiled by the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development. The program described here is the Appalachia Preschool Education Program developed by the Appalachia Educational Laboratory. The Appalachia Preschool Program is a demonstration project…

A discussion and application of the Appalachia Preschool Test (APT) are presented. This test was developed to supplement the standardized instruments in use to measure program performance. It consists of two principal subtests, an introductory interview, and a section measuring logical reasoning and reading skill achievement. It is noted that the…