The effect of massed versus distributed television presentations on attendance and learning in a voluntary situation were compared in a field experiment involving 114 physicians in general practice. The factorial design was based on four experimental groups, each located in a different community. Physicians viewed videotape presentations in a…

A HANDBOOK DEVELOPED FOR FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA (FFA) ADVISORS PROVIDES USEFUL RESOURCE MATERIAL FOR THE TEACHING OF RURAL SAFETY, AS WELL AS SUGGESTIONS FOR RURAL AND FARM SAFETY EDUCATION ACTIVITIES. ORGANIZATIONS THAT PROVIDE SAFETY MATERIALS ARE LISTED, AS WELL AS TITLES OF SAFETY FILMS. COPIES OF THIS PUBLICATION ARE ALSO AVAILABLE FROM…

THIS MODULE OF A 25-MODULE COURSE IS DESIGNED TO INTRODUCE BASIC HYDRAULIC PRINCIPLES AND PROVIDE AN UNDERSTANDING OF HYDRAULIC TRANSMISSIONS USED IN DIESEL POWERED VEHICLES. TOPICS ARE WHY USE HYDRAULICS, REVIEWING BASIC PHYSICS LAWS IN RELATION TO HYDRAULICS, UNDERSTANDING THE HYDRAULIC SYSTEM, AND DEVELOPING A BASIC HYDRAULIC SYSTEM. THE MODULE…

This ESEA Title III bibliography presents books, films, filmstrips, and records that correlate with stories from selected second-grade basic reading books. The list of books is prepared from the suggested lists of the Ginn, Houghton Mifflin, Lippincott, and Scott, Foresman reading series. The bibliography includes sections about animals, biography…

This issue of the "Interracial Books for Children Bulletin" contains a special section focusing on the film called, "The Speaker". This film purports to deal with an assault on the First Amendment and with the necessity for eternal vigilance in defense of U.S. Constitutional freedom. The setting is an integrated high school…

This brochure presents some classroom problems which have been solved by college instructors through the use of nonprint materials. There is a discussion on how to determine when and how nonprint media could be used during a course. Five questions are asked which help instructors select the type of nonprint materials they should use to harmonize…

Two hundred forty college undergraduates participated in a study of the effect of camera angle on an audience's perceptual judgments of source credibility, dominance, attraction, and homophily. The subjects were divided into four groups and each group was shown a videotape presentation in which sources had been videotaped according to one of four…

Because of a reading difficulty resulting in inability to acquire new information and concepts from the textbook used in a technical Physics I course, the investigator felt it appropriate to find another way for presenting the material. Since these students were majoring in electronics technology, they require good technique in the laboratory. The…

A bibliography on the concept of death in children's literature in the last 15 years provides evaluative annotations for one film and 65 print items (both fiction and nonfiction) in four categories: adult, grades K-3, grades 4-6, and grades 7 and up. Additional items, which are not annotated, are listed in a comprehensive bibliography which…

To acquaint international educators with the various resources available to them in the field of educational technology, this document revises material originally compiled in 1972. It lists a brief description of the services that each agency offers. The directory is organized into six major topical headings: general information, technical and…

Intended to acquaint educators with various materials that may be used in the classroom to enhance the American Indian student's self-concept by acquainting him with the richness and variety of his cultural heritage, this bibliography cites 896 books, audiovisual aids, and periodicals about the Navajo and Zuni tribes. The materials, published…

This study examines the effects of various combinations of teaching methods on unstructured written responses to poetry. The methods involved were studying short films related to the poems, listening to audio-tapes of the poems, and discussing poems in class. These three variables were combined in a 2 x 2 x 2 design. The subjects were 324 twelfth…

This study identifies and describes the interest patterns of 218 fourth and fifth grade children in two schools in Baton Rouge, Louisiana--one black Title I school, one white suburban school--as they pertain to the content and technique of the short film, and to determine whether these interest were related to sex, or race-socioeconomic status.…

West Virginia University has compiled an annotated bibliography of the University's collection on Appalachia. The first section is devoted to in-print books, and the second lists media. Books are listed alphabetically by author within the following subject areas; (1) history, politics, and economy; (2) social structure and conditions; (3) coal,…

A study of 128 third graders was made to determine whether audiovisual media does facilitate cognitive development by comparing the effects of learning a mental skill from a filmed demonstration of that skill with learning from more active kinds of experience. The mental skill was the ability to mentally transform mental images by rotating them…