Important changes in classroom television and the technologies that accompany it have taken place. Videocassette recorders have become more plentiful, giving teachers greater flexibility in presentation and scheduling; the growth of program delivery systems such as videocassettes, satellite, cable, and broadcast services has given educators more…

In May 1995 the Corporation for Public Broadcasting commissioned a national study into attitudes and perceptions about public television. The study was conducted by Yankelovich Partners under the Omnibus Survey and included Asian, Black, Hispanic, and White Americans. The results demonstrated that public television is a well-established and…

This paper presents a history of electronic distance education in the United States. Three broad categories of delivery systems are described: (1) over-the-air open circuit systems such as VHF-UHF stations, microwave, instructional television fixed service (ITFS), communications satellites, and educational radio and television; (2)…

This report on a 2-day workshop held in 1987 on the role of television in learning begins with a summary of points made or discussed by the participants, including: (1) whether educational programs for adults should be given greater attention; (2) the ways in which programming for children is influenced by market forces; (3) the costs of producing…

Based on an analysis of programs in a British Broadcasting Company (BBC) series transmitted during the 1984-1985 school year, this discussion of the pedagogy of educational television in Great Britain reviews previous analyses of children's television from both a media studies perspective and from within educational psychology, and proposes an…

This report summarizes two case studies conducted in 1979-1980 in a combined fifth-sixth grade special class for talented and gifted pupils in a large Oregon school district and a sixth grade self-contained classroom in a small school district, both of which were using ThinkAbout, a series of 60 15-minute instructional television programs designed…

This report describes the formative evaluation of the first three rough-cut instructional television programs for "On the Level," a series of 12 lessons dealing with personal and social growth for secondary school students. Results discussed are based on viewing three programs in a total of 36 classrooms at sites in Maryland, Tennessee,…

Television's role within the familial setting is the subject of a research program being conducted at the Universities of Hartford, Texas, and Utah, proceeding on the premise that television functions within a variety of environmental influences, all of which act in varying combinations to produce a wide range of effects within viewers. The…

An estimated 100,000 to 200,000 hours of television programing per year are exported by the United States and the effects of this programing on other cultures, particularly those in developing nations, have generated concern. The appeal of this programing can be explained by its intended universality: it is produced within a multiethnic culture,…

Findings of television research conducted in Montreal and Windsor, Canada, in February-May 1978, that studied numerous aspects of the parent-adolescent-television relationship are summarized in this report. Particular emphasis is given to differences between ethnic and English families, differences in the ways adolescent boys and girls perceive…

These notes are designed to accompany a series of 10 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) television programs intended to give persons already familiar with French, an insight into aspects of contemporary Francophone societies. The programs revolve around various themes: (1) numbers and letters; (2) words and meanings; (3) eating patterns; (4)…

THE TELEVISION GUIDE FOR THE ANAHEIM PLAN IS PRESENTED. INSTRUCTION IS PROVIDED BY MEANS OF CLOSED-CIRCUIT TELEVISION IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SUBJECTS OF SOCIAL STUDIES, SCIENCE, CONVERSATIONAL SPANISH, AND ARITHMETIC. REGULAR CLASSROOM TEACHERS AND AUDIOVISUAL RESOURCE TEACHERS PRESENT CAREFULLY PLANNED AND THOROUGH PREPARATORY AND FOLLOWUP…

This report reviews research and opinion concerning the teaching of reading with in-school television and describes a commercially televised reading program for sixth and seventh grade Duval County (Jacksonville, Florida) schoolchildren, who watched television at home, but who received correlated instruction in school classes. Pretest and posttest…

Children need to develop skills enabling them to respond to television efficiently, analytically, and with discrimination. Removing children's advertising from television will not help them to understand the nature of the appeals used by the advertiser, who will find other means of reaching children; and advocating no violence on television brings…

After seven judges had ranked 30 families for observed parental consumer teaching orientations and family television viewing habits, one family was selected for each cell of a 3X3 factorial design for age of children (3 to 5, 6 to 8, 9 to 11) and family consumer teaching orientation (high, moderate, low). These nine family groups were observed…