A research study that shows teachers do look different on television than in person. (Author)

A SEMINAR WAS HELD TO CONSIDER THE USES OF TELEVISION IN EDUCATION TO ASSESS PRESENT KNOWLEDGE IN THIS CONNECTION, AND TO IDENTIFY AREAS NEEDING STUDY AND RESEARCH. WHILE NO ONE COMBINATION OF PRACTICES WAS RECOMMENDED AS A MODEL IN THE APPLICATION OF TELEVISION TO THE VARIED PURPOSES OF EDUCATION, NEEDS, SUCCESSFUL PRACTICES, AND TECHNIQUES IN…

A comprehensive framework for assigning experimental research in television message design strategies into either production or performer variable categories is developed, research related to each category is reviewed, and suggestions are made for the conception and reporting of continued research. Seventy-nine references are listed. (Author/CHC)

This study was aimed at determining whether there was a difference in attitude and achievement scores of undergraduate students enrolled in an instructional television (ITV) course when academic content was given three treatments: (1) by a regular faculty member who employed formal lecture- reading mode, (2) role player who employed formal…

Authors describe the results of their research project dealing with what children like about commercial television and the implications for instructional television. (HB)

Classroom observation data were collected from 32 presentations by 7 professors in the College of Medicine at Texas A&M University over the course of 9 months for a study of the potential of two-way television as an instructional medium. Half of the observations were made from two-way television mediated lessons transmitted from the Veterans…

LEADERS IN ADULT EDUCATION AND THE TELEVISION FIELDS ADDRESSED A CONFERENCE OF THE AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION OF ADULT EDUCATION ON TELEVISION AS A VEHICLE FOR ADULT EDUCATION. DISCUSSION GROUPS CONSIDERED SUCH ISSUES AS TARGET POPULATIONS, NATURE OF PROGRAMS, AND USE OF FOLLOWUP MATERIALS AND METHODS. SOME OF THE IDEAS EXPRESSED WERE THAT THE…

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO TEST THE EFFECTS OF SPECIFIED CONDITIONS OF TELEVISION PRESENTATION AND OF CLASSROOM ACTIVITY UPON THE ACQUISITION OF MEANINGFUL CONCEPTS AND GENERALIZATIONS OF CERTAIN NATURAL SCIENCE PHENOMENA. THE SUBJECTS CONSISTED OF 36 FIFTH-GRADE CLASSES (APPROXIMATELY 1,000 CHILDREN) SELECTED FROM 90 CLASSES WHICH HAD…

DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION OF TELEVISED EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR DISADVANTAGED PRESCHOOL CHILDREN AND THEIR TEACHERS WAS ACCOMPLISHED. A SERIES OF 56 CHILDREN'S PROGRAMS AND A SERIES OF 24 PROGRAMS FOR INSERVICE TEACHERS WERE DEVELOPED AND EVALUATED. THE PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN, CALLED "ROUNDABOUT," PROVIDED EXPERIENCES AND GUIDED…

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.…

A MAJOR MEDICAL CENTER CONDUCTED A SERIES OF EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES CONCERNED WITH THE USE OF CLOSED CIRCUIT TELEVISION INSTRUCTION IN THE CURRICULUMS OF MEDICINE, DENTISTRY, PHARMACY, AND NURSING. THE SIX STUDIES REPORTED WERE (1) OVER 300 HEALTH SCIENCE TELEVISION PRESENTATIONS WERE PRODUCED, PRESENTED TO STUDENTS, AND EVALUATED. REPORTS WERE MADE…

The purpose of this study was to identify the factors in preschool educational television that engage and sustain children's attention. The method used to measure the children's attention was decided on in a pilot study of three measurement techniques, and consisted of an observer rating scale with the periodic introduction of a kaleidoscopic…

A survey of the use of television in education in Britain presents the medium not as a revolutionary approach to instruction, but rather as a new facility through which the teacher can better achieve traditional educational aims. The medium is analyzed according to its ability to magnify, distribute vision instantaneously, store visual material,…

An experiment to evaluate the effectiveness of narrative television as a teaching device for Army reservists showed that television instruction is effective, remembered, and liked by reservists. Of the 3000 reservists who took part, all grades of officers and enlisted men were able to score higher on a standard questionnair (which they were…