Presented and discussed are a series of suggestions and examples concerned with improving ETV and ITV programs through feedback and increasing their effectiveness through the use of follow-up materials in the classroom. (LS)

Bringing TV into the classroom can enable children to learn to identify a sequence of ideas, the main theme of a story, describe characters and make judgments about them through the dialogue they hear. (Author/ML)

Reported is a study to examine the achievement of students viewing two versions of a television presentation related to the Earth Resources program on the Skylab Space Station. One version was produced as a simulation of astronaut activities and the other as a standard studio educational television program. A test instrument was formulated for…

Investigates whether television should be called upon to assist in teaching young students the basic skills that they seem not to be learning very well. Discusses the introduction of television teaching in El Salvador and evaluates the work of the Agency for Instructional Television to see how it is approaching the teaching of basic skills.…

Starting from research-based conclusions regarding the use of Educational Television (ETV) in colleges, and the premise that ETV is a new medium of instruction rather than just another method, this book tries to answer three questions: 1. Can a distinction be made between the consequences of students being taught by ETV and the consequences…