Presents a brief description of a study done to assess the impact of the use of calculators during examination, showing that the use of the instruments did play a major role in chemistry grade determination. (EB)

Discusses ways in which student exercises with disposable beverage containers can illustrate, by analogy, such things as rock surveys, animal territoriality, energy conservation, and mechanical weathering. (MLH)

Media is discussed as contributing to emancipatory concepts in education. Some of these concepts are the changing role of teachers; education for the underprivileged; and increased communication through the media. (Text is in German.) (Author/AM)

This article discusses the development of new tests which relate to a specific context and the role of teachers in test development and selection. (Text is in German.) (Author/AM)

Research performed under grant from Office of Education, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Primarily concerned with input to secondary school curriculum development as promulgated in the four national centers of the Scottish Curriculum Development Service (SCDS), this study investigated the ways in which national working parties integrate media resources into their projects, how schools tackle the media elements, and problems of…

This study reviews the literature on public school administration and on decentralization to establish the groundwork for an analysis of the administration of a decentralized school system and its media services, discusses some of the confusion in the centralization vs. decentralization debate, and presents a heuristic study of the administration…

Instructions with line drawings and/or patterns are provided for making 85 of the exemplar products perpared in APEID-sponsored workshops, which reviewed current efforts and materials, and explored new strategies and directions in the utilization of low cost, simple, indigenous materials to fill the regional need for audiovisual resources. The…

The Office of Demographic Studies report contains descriptive information regarding the availability of media equipment in special education programs serving hearing impaired students in the United States. The data are presented in tabular format for four categories of special education programs: residential schools, day schools, full-time special…

The selection matrix is an attempt to provide an efficient, effective, and practical basis for selecting the instructional medium possessing more specific learner-situation-task attributes than others. The selection matrix provides three important capabilities by (1) identifying a number of appropriate media and isolating them, (2) reducing the…