Last year, Prime Time School Television conducted a survey of teachers to determine what kinds of evening television programs would be most helpful in teaching. Those that developed values was the answer and this article considered how television programing was utilized to help students better understand moral values. (Author/RK)

Discusses the results of a test asministered to preschool children to measure the impact of Plaza Sesamo on their gains in learning skills. (MH)

A television advisory committee composed of teachers does all the selecting and scheduling of programs. (Author/MLF)

Fiesta Project provides a classic example of action anthropology in broadcasting. The project involved the research and production of a Spanish language public television series designed to attract, retain, and realistically help a Mexican American audience in southern Arizona. The project used anthropological research in initial program…

Reports that young children characterized as high or medium news watchers, probably watch the news with their parents, watch more as they grow older, have a fairly good idea of the scope and usefulness of television news, prefer stories about topics appearing in popular entertainment programs, and tend to see television news as being about bad or…

Investigative Science for Elementary Education-Instructional Television (ISEE-ITV) is a resource developed by Pennsylvania's Department of Education for elementary teachers with in-service preparation in science. The teachers use instructional television to model six teaching strategies. (BB)

Class discussions of television shows that portray disabled people can be used to help children correct their misconceptions about those who have handicaps. (SJL)

Reports on a survey of British television viewing. Results indicate that younger viewers are more likely to watch a higher proporation of programs containing violent material than older viewers. (JMF)

Demonstrates how five daytime television shows present American values regarding love and sex, money and materialism, and shame and guilt. (DD)

Discusses research on how television affects standards of conduct and behavior. Overall finding is that television is providing mostly innocuous behavioral models for emotionally disturbed children, providing support for the notion that emotionally disturbed children are less inclined than normal children to accept adult or authoritarian figure…

An overview of television and its use in reading instruction in schools, at home, and with computers. Research on educational television and reading is also reviewed, and a 57-item bibliography is appended. (RAO)

The experience of producing and presenting two continuing education courses on cable television proved that this technique can be a valuable additional means of presenting courses, complementing classroom discussions, and efficiently extending the university into the community. (Author)

A survey revealed that a larger percentage of blacks than of whites had watched the television drama "Roots," considered it accurate, and discussed it with friends. The program's influence on the racial attitude of whites was found to be less than many media observers had believed. (GW)

A study of the relationships between television use and political socialization indicated that lower levels of political information and understandings of the workings of government are associated with increased quantities of television viewing, but that positive political attitudes and higher levels of political knowledge are associated with…

Second, fifth, and eighth graders viewed one of four edited versions of a commercial action-adventure television program that varied in number of scenes and in degree of organization. Both recognition and recall measures were used to assess children's memory for central content, peripheral content, and implicit content. (Author/JMB)