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Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Energy and Commerce. – 1986
H.R. 3216, the Children's Television Act of 1985--a bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to increase the availability of educational and informational television programs for children, deals with establishing a quantifiable children's programming guideline. This bill would establish substantial burdens under the license renewal process for…
Descriptors: Accountability, Broadcast Industry, Childhood Needs, Children
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1984
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 37 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the role of television in the lives of older homebound individuals; (2) radio wars between Cuba and the United States; (3) the relationship between…
Descriptors: Advertising, Annotated Bibliographies, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Television
Beaubien, Roger; And Others – 1984
Eight units help elementary students consider the effect of television on their lives and how television programs depict conflict and real-life problems. Each unit contains a reading, check-up questions, and a number of suggested activities. Topics covered are: early programming, the reality of issues and situations covered in television programs,…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Children, Conflict Resolution, Cooperation
Lehr, Fran – 1986
Intended for administrators and policymakers as well as teachers, this digest explores the relationship between television viewing habits and reading achievement. The digest first examines recent research indicating a negative relationship between television viewing in excess of ten hours and reading performance. The digest next focuses on the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement, Reading Attitudes
Akinyemi, Kunle – 1986
This document begins by detailing the history of Nigerian television in the areas of politics and development, entertainment and culture, and information dissemination, news, and education from 1959 to the present. The use of television in Nigerian education at all levels, including elementary and secondary, higher, informal, and nonformal…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Developing Nations, Educational Television, Elementary Secondary Education
Kendall-Tackett, Kathleen A.; Spear, Paul S. – 1984
This study investigated the effects of intraprogram synopses on children's comprehension of essential and peripheral content of an action-adventure television drama. The impact of these synopses on the comprehension of commercials also was investigated. A total of 30 second graders and 30 fifth graders participated. Synopses were presented to…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Carrozza, Fay; Jochums, Brenda – 1979
A 1978 field test evaluated the 3-program "Collecting Information" cluster of ThinkAbout, a series of 60 15-minute instructional television programs for fifth and sixth graders designed to strengthen reasoning skills and to review and reinforce language arts, mathematics, and study skills. Conducted in 60 classrooms in Kansas City,…
Descriptors: Educational Television, Elementary Education, Field Tests, Information Seeking
Peterson, Polly E.; And Others – 1981
The educational effects of pronutritional programing on kindergarten children were investigated in a pretest-posttest control group design involving 56 children from four kindergarten classes. These children were exposed to a series of five 20-minute videotapes over a period of six class days. The videotapes were compiled from popular children's…
Descriptors: Advertising, Attitude Change, Behavior Patterns, Change Strategies
Seya, Pierre Thizier; Yao, Faustin Kouadjo – 1977
The two surveys described in this report were conducted for the Out of School Television (OSTV) unit in order to learn more about the context in which its series of weekly programs for rural adults (Tele Pour Tous or Television for Everybody--TVE) operates, and to study audience reactions to a specific series. Individual interviews with selected…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Broadcast Television, Community Attitudes
Hebbeler, Kathleen; Cosgrove, Michael – 1978
Results are presented of a national survey of in-school students, teachers, and principals to determine the viewership and availability of 11 television series which have been produced and distributed through funding provided by the Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA) to reduce cultural isolation among minority group members. In-home surveys were also…
Descriptors: Childrens Television, Cultural Isolation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
Applied Management Sciences, Inc., Silver Spring, MD. – 1978
The U.S. Office of Education, under the legislative authority of the Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA), commissioned a survey of the viewership of 11 ESAA-funded TV series designed to reduce cultural isolation in minority children. Objectives of the survey were to determine the availability of the ESAA-TV series to their target audiences, as well as…
Descriptors: Childrens Television, Cultural Isolation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
FORSMAN, MARION E.
THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING INSTALLED IN 1964 A CLOSED CIRCUIT TV NETWORK INTERLOCKING GAINESVILLE, DAYTONA BEACH, ORLANDO, AND PORT CANAVERAL TO PROVIDE GRADUATE ENGINEERING EDUCATION TO A GREATER NUMBER OF STUDENTS, MAINLY EMPLOYEES OF INDUSTRIES. CENTERS ARE CONNECTED THROUGH INTERCITY MICROWAVE CIRCUITS, EACH CIRCUIT…
Descriptors: Closed Circuit Television, Computers, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Television
Surlin, Stuart H.; And Others – 1978
A study was conducted to document the existence of the "reverse modeling" principle of television viewing behavior whereby children, rather than parents, determine the television viewing choices for family members. Through telephone interviews, 284 adult respondents were questioned regarding their knowledge of the television advisory…
Descriptors: Audiences, Behavioral Science Research, Children, Parent Child Relationship
Lucas, Richard Jay – 1976
The purpose of this study was to examine the socializing effect the viewing of adult-oriented commercials has on young children of differing socioeconomic backgrounds. The subjects, 227 children in the first, second, and third grades, included 109 lower-socioeconomic-level black children and 118 white children representing upper-middle-income…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Credibility
1975
This reference book contains updated material on four principal media (press, radio, television, and film) for 200 countries, supplying with statistical support, information on the general structure, facilities, output, distribution, and coverage of each in its individual, local, and national context. Entries for news agencies, space…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cable Television, Communications, Communications Satellites
