Evaluates the effectiveness of using motion/sound, slide/sound, and story boards in teaching a specific motor skill. Performance tests indicated that learners using motion film performed significantly better than those using either slides or workbooks, and required significantly less time. Thirteen references are listed. (Author/MER)

Describes a study in which two media presentations, tape-slide and film, were evaluated in order to determine their relative cost-effectiveness when used as automated teaching aids for the mentally handicapped. Sixteen references are listed. (Author)

A teacher training program includes the production of filmed and taped episodes demonstrating each category of decision in effective teaching and a diagnostic prescriptive observation instrument of the process of teaching. (Author/MLF)

Describes a farmer training program developed in Peru using videotape recorders and audiovisual trainees. Courses are produced and given to rural people on topics such as dairy cattle husbandry, irrigation, potato growing, citrus production, and reclamation of saline soils. (Author/SA)

Suggests ways in which teachers of African area studies on the college level can incorporate films on Africa into the curriculum. Methods include showing longer films outside regular classroom hours, introducing students to perspectives other than those of the teacher, and discussing film-related issues to draw out and reinforce understandings and…

The relationship between sexual experience and contraceptive attitudinal responses to a birth control film is examined. Significant group differences were found regarding reinforcement of sexual attitudes but not for contraceptive attitudes. (JMF)

The author discusses the reluctance of music educators to accept and to make use of technological advances such as films, video cassettes and videodisks. He suggests that the decade of the 1980s holds astonishing possibilities for the music educator who recognizes the contributions the image media can make. (KC)

Characteristics of electronic media (film, television, and radio), their strengths and weaknesses, advantages and disadvantages, and how alumni can use these media are explored. (JMF)

The study involving 46 fourth graders evaluated the effects of a film pointing out how aspirations and interests of handicapped children are similar to those of nonhandicapped classmates. The film did not appear to be sufficient to handle all questions nonhandicapped children might have about handicapped peers, and its effect did not appear to be…

Reports on a survey of 268 high school students that reveals the relationships between school achievement and three measures of mass media use: amount of time devoted to reading newspapers, time spent on radio listening, and frequency of movie attendance. (GT)

A technique was devised for constructing a text story which subjects agreed matched the dialogueless movie "The Red Balloon" in episodic structure. It relies partly on subjects judging where episodes and their components were located in the stories. Differences in content in movie and text recall are discussed. (SW)

Describes the procedure for conducting a ten-week project for the foreign language classroom that involves group participation: the dubbing of shortened American films using students' voices. (EJS)

Examines ways in which learning activities can be designed around trigger films--short, high impact vignettes designed to stimulate learning--to enhance their use in situations dealing with affective learning. Illustrates the use of these films in an undergraduate course, and discusses difficulties tutors experience and guidelines for their…

Reviews films, books, and other teaching resources available from the ERIC database as well as from other sources. (KS)