This statistical survey examines the distribution of the student population in public schools of the counties of California and the distribution and utilization of media resources in those counties for the year 1974-75. Consulting services, audiovisual materials, films, catalogs, sources of support, expenditures, contractual arrangements, and…

Available on the University of Illinois PLATO IV Computer system, the Population Dynamic Group computer-aided instruction program for teaching population dynamics is described and explained. The computer-generated visual graphics enable fast and intuitive understanding of the dynamics of population and of the concepts and data of population. The…

This document is a teachers' guide to the television series, "Boricuas: The Pureto Ricans." The manual provides additional information to help teachers understand the adjustment problems and special educational needs of Puerto Rican students. The program order is as follows: Puerto Rican studies, island of Borinquen, nineteenth century,…

The modern, miniaturized computer as in information processor has radically altered the logic of three commonplaces regarding computer-based learning: (1) that the machine exerts a dehumanizing effect on the educational process, (2) that computers are too expensive to prove cost-effective in education, and (3) that the computer's facility in…

More than 18,000 films, videotapes, recordings, and multimedia presentations for teaching health and safety education, driver training, medicine and dentistry, home economics, nursing, and physical education are listed in this catalog. Catalog entries are classified alphabetically by title. Each entry provides a summary of the materials, describes…

A broad, panoramic study was conducted on the activities and the extent of participation of Black people in various telecommunications fields in the United States. The ways in which media technology can be and has been used as a means for educating Black people were examined. Briefly, the ideological perspective of Black education was discussed…

An inservice educational television course, which offered individualized experience in diagnosing specific reading problems and in locating remedial materials, was beamed by communication satellite to 286 elementary school teachers in the Appalachian region. Course evaluation concluded that: (1) participants demonstrated a significant gain in the…

A communication satellite was utilized as part of a 16 session career education course for secondary school teachers given at 15 sites throughout the Appalachian region. The conclusions reached were: (1) teachers preferred the sessions which presented examples of career education and were "how to do it" in format; (2) teachers preferred…

A catalog prepared by the Resource Center, Texas Educational Agency, provides information about audio and video tapes available for duplication and also about films, filmstrips, and slide-tape presentations available for free loan to Texas educational institutions. Programs cover all areas of the school curriculum from kindergarten through college…

The book, intended primarily for teachers in English schools, is appropriate for American teachers as well. Its purpose is threefold: to offer some guidance to heads of secondary schools who want to improve the quality and/or quantity of career education and guidance provided by their schools; to offer some suggestions for career education…

An exploratory study was conducted to test the assumption that multimode knowledge of results is superior to traditionally presented knowledge of results in maintaining a student's interest and attention. In addition, the relative merit of pictorial format in a lesson was compared with a basic lesson display. The study involved 32 kindergarten…

This document explains the TUTOR language which is used by teachers to create or author lesson materials on the PLATO IV computer-based education system. After an introductory section, the second section explains how to display text and line drawings to students. The third section introduces subroutines, and it is followed by explanations of…

The study was designed to test the effectiveness of three media approaches in presenting home economics career information to students. Taped interviews with three home economists in the fields of food service, child care, and fabric and fashion served as the basis for developing the presentations: (1) a tape recording, (2) tape-slide…

The resource guide of instructional materials is one of two guides developed by 84 occupational education teachers in the State of New York, each experienced with the designated high school population. The assessment instrument developed to evaluate the occupational education materials is included. The occupational education materials are grouped…

Presented is the fifth formative evaluation report on "Me and My Environment," a 3-year environmental sciences program developed for 13-to 16-year old educable mentally handicapped (EMH) children by the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS). The first half of the document consists of samples of student performance on specific…