This report is an annotated bibliography concerning television as a technical aid in education and in pedagogical and psychological research. The main stress is placed on English and German dissertations from the period 1962 to 1969. A third section includes some other published material in the English language. The sub-sections of the three main…

Although much has been written about techniques of artistic expression in the various media and about the social implications of the more persuasive of these, there is little information on communications theory which is useful to those who must make decisions concerning the applications of this new technology. Information refers to something…

Intended as a method of increasing children's learning from commercial television by providing supplementary educational commentary on a simultaneous radio broadcast, this study was designed to explore the potential of dual audio instruction as a mass educational system by determining the medium's practicality, the rate of voluntary usage, the…

The project continuation proposal submitted for the Information Services of the National Center on Educational Media and Materials for the Handicapped by the Ohio State University Research Foundation to the Bureau of Education of the Handicapped in 1974 contains budgets and goals of the Information Services' three projects: National Instructional…

All 59 documents published by the Educational Resources Information Center on Educational Media and Technology (ERIC/EM) are abstracted in this document. The abstracts are the same as those which appeared in Research in Education (RIE), ERIC's monthly catalog. They are arranged alphabetically by author. With only two exceptions (journal articles…

The standard of mechanical literacy of any publication should be very high, both for one's own information and for education in and outside classrooms. On this count, too many smalltime local papers are good only for "negative teaching" of socially accepted language. The influence of any newspaper on the language depends upon how much of it is…

Evaluations are presented of recently produced media products designed for use in schools. The materials are grouped in three main categories--films, filmstrips and others, including kits, charts, tapes, filmloops and slides. Within categories, the products are arranged by the following subject matters: man as an individual, man as a social…

Research measured the attention of deaf children to captioned visuals using a conjugate reinforcement procedure. The subjects were six deaf children aged eight to 15, whose IQs fell within the normal range. The stimulus material consisted of slides produced from a captioned filmstrip; subjects controlled the presentation of the stimulus via a…

A step-by-step exposition is presented of the manner in which the systematic application of the principles of instructional design can lead to sequential learning. Following an introduction to systematic instructional design, the second and third chapters of the book discuss a systems model of the classroom and the setting of objectives for…

Interviews with approximately 300 Stanford University faculty, representing every school and department of the university, are summarized and described in this preliminary report of an exploratory study on audiovisual media at Stanford. Areas included in the interviews were: 1) learning and technology, 2) what is the hardware, and 3) what is the…

In the fall of 1973, questionnaires concerning their professional relationships and goals were sent to 456 school media specialists in the southeastern United States. Responses were received from 66% of those surveyed. The major conclusions derived from the survey were the following: (1) there is a trend toward central locations for school media…

The workshop produced three speeches which form the three parts of this document. The first, "Children's Materials and the Black Experience" by Augusta Baker, discussed many children's books and how they relate to the black child. The second speech, "What the Appalachian Child Brings to your Classroom" by Rebecca Caudill,…

This document contains a resource guide designed to help teachers plan programs of literature study for students at all grade levels, and "Broward County's K through 12 Continuum for the English Language Arts," which is a statement of general goals in English considered appropriate for students to work toward during their school years. Goals are…

This report describes the evaluation of the Regional Educational Service Center, which was established to develope and coordinate an improved curriculum in vocational education, instructional media, language arts, and library services. The evaluation objectives which provided the focus for the activities and related to each of the four subject…

A developmental effort--the Media Guidelines Project--sought to create and validate criteria to assist in planning media training programs, in evaluating media-related training proposals, and in assessing training program outputs. The ultimate purpose was to insure the development of manpower with the competencies which will be required in the…