Sixteen college students were measured for "skin conductance responses" (SCR) while they viewed four films on either a movie or a television screen in a study of selected media differences between theatrical film and television viewing. The students watched a bland (nonaggressive) and an aggressive film on one medium, then viewed two…

A conceptual model of how children process televised information was developed with the goal of identifying those parameters of the process that are both measurable and manipulable in research settings. The model presented accommodates the nature of information processing both by the child and by the presentation by the medium. Presentation is…

This paper describes a study on the nature of the linguistic information presented in children's television programs which was conducted to compare the verbal communication features of different types of programs, determine whether there were adjustments of linguistic information that would facilitate young children's linguistic processing, and…

Children's learning from television was studied in 343 fourth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students who viewed an edited version of a television program and took a posttest. It was hypothesized that children would learn more plot-relevant information (central learning material) as they moved from concrete operational to formal operational…

Segments of primetime and Saturday morning television programing were viewed by 225 people who then reported what criteria they used to assess violence on commercial and public television. The subjects also provided data on their visual media experience, their viewing habits, their viewing attitudes, and demographic characteristics. The subjects…

This informal study of the religious uses of television, based on direct on-site discussions with religious television producers, was undertaken in order to provide a broader base of understanding of current developments in the field, and to assess the viability of a television broadcast ministry for the United Methodist Church. Discussions with…

A 10-ITEM, MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONNAIRE WAS DESIGNED TO SURVEY THE USE OF AND TEACHER REACTION TO EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION (ETV) IN EIGHT COUNTIES PARTICIPATING IN THE REGIONAL ETV AREA OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. THE 3,860 TEACHER RESPONSES WERE PROCESSED THROUGH DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT, AND WERE CONVERTED INTO PERCENTAGE OF RESPONSE FOR EACH ITEM…

THE SATISFACTION OF THE BASIC REQUIREMENTS OF EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION BY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE INSTRUCTIONAL TV FIXED SERVICE WAS DISCUSSED. THE BASIC REQUIREMENTS OF EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION WERE THAT THE COST PER STUDENT OR PER STUDENT HOUR OF INSTRUCTION HAD TO BE ECONOMICAL, THAT A VERY LARGE NUMBER OF STUDENTS HAD TO BE SERVED, THAT THE…

PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTS OF AN IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK DEVICE ON LEARNING, RETENTION, AND ATTITUDES OF 264 COLLEGE STUDENTS IN A BEGINNING PSYCHOLOGY COURSE. LECTURES WERE PRESENTED ON CLOSED CIRCUIT TELEVISION. A CONTROL GROUP USED THE DEVICE ONLY TO PREVENT COPYING OF THEIR ANSWERS BY OTHER STUDENTS. NO SIGNIFICANT…

A THREE-CREDIT COURSE IN AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS AND METHODS CONSISTS OF 42 HALF-HOUR TELEVISED LESSONS, WITH CORRELATED READING AND WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS. THE COURSE IS DESIGNED FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS OF SOCIAL STUDIES, SCIENCE, AND LANGUAGE ARTS. THE LESSONS ARE BROADCAST FROM A LOCAL STATION. THIS STUDY GUIDE CONTAINS THE INFORMATION ON…

TO ASSESS STUDENT OPINION TOWARD TELEVISED INSTRUCTION IN A REQUIRED HEALTH EDUCATION COURSE, A 7-ITEM QUESTIONNAIRE WAS ADMINISTERED TO 416 STUDENTS AT THE END OF A TELEVISION COURSE AND TO 213 WHO COMPLETED A LIVE LECTURE CLASS. TELEVISION SECTIONS, EACH CONTAINING ABOUT 60 STUDENTS, WERE MONITORED BY MATURE, COMPETENT PERSONS WHO RECORDED…

THIS SOURCEBOOK FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE IN THE UTILIZATION OF SCIENCE PROGRAMS TELECAST OVER A STATE EDUCATIONAL NETWORK. PROVIDING STUDENTS WITH EXPERIENCES WHICH THEY MIGHT NOT OTHERWISE HAVE AND STIMULATING THEM TO ENGAGE IN ACTIVITIES WHICH THEY MIGHT NOT OTHERWISE DO ARE MAJOR OBJECTIVES OF THE…

A 3-YEAR PROJECT WAS INITIATED IN THE SPRING OF 1959 FOR BROAD PURPOSES--(1) TO STUDY THE RELATIVE ADVANTAGES OF OBSERVATION IN TEACHER EDUCATION BY CLOSED-CIRCUIT TELEVISION (CCTV), USE OF KINESCOPES, AND DIRECT OBSERVATION, (2) TO DEVELOP VALID AND RELIABLE MEASURING INSTRUMENTS FOR EVALUATING OBSERVATIONAL PRACTICES AND SKILLS, (3) TO DEVELOP…

The mass media appear to have an influential role in the socialization of children by exposing them to a world far beyond the limits of their immediate experience. Because children must depend on mass media models for learning about adult sexual intimacy, a content analysis of daytime soap operas, to which many children are exposed daily without…

Included in this newsletter are abstracts of recent articles and books on television violence and related topics. Literature searched includes psychiatry, psychology, and communications periodicals as well as a wide range of the social science literature. Also abstracted are items from both the industrial and the lay press, and the actions of…