This study measured the effects on children's behavior of peer influence and prosocial and antisocial television messages. The subjects, 120 children in second, third, and fourth grades, were placed in three different situations: one in which no television was viewed, one in which an excerpt from a television program portraying violence was…

The use of telecommunications was studied as a means of making higher education more accessible to urban disadvantaged adults by using a statewide, closed-circuit, instructional telecommunications network. A comprehensive review was made of telecommunications in higher education, the learning needs and styles of urban disadvantaged adults, and the…

Self Incorporated is a 15-program television/film series designed to stimulate classroom discussion of problems and issues of early adolescence. This document provides an overall summary of a formative evaluation project and summary results of the evaluations of each of eight programs in the series. (CH)

Self Incorporated is a 15-program television/film series designed to stimulate classroom discussion of critical issues and problems of early adolescence. Formative evaluation of Self Incorporated was conducted in two phases: pre-production evaluation and extensive field tests of eight of the tentatively completed programs. Separate evaluations for…

CVRP Patch Panel is the bi-monthly newsletter of the California Video Resource Project (CVRP) which has interests and activities in video and cable technologies in libraries. Its January/February 1976 issue headlines an article on the American Library Association's midwinter meeting in Chicago, with emphasis on the new Video and Cable…

This paper presents a study designed to determine whether or not parents' attitudes and children's intelligence scores affect children's reactions to television programs. Preschool children's behavior before, during, and after the viewing of two half-hour television programs, "Sesame Street" and "Polka Dot Door," was compared.…

A community service and continuing education program in Weatherford, Oklahoma was developed primarily for retired or semi-retired persons over 55 years of age. Purposes of the program, partially funded by Title 1 Higher Education Act of 1965, were: (1) to assist senior citizens in making better use of their leisure time, (2) to impart or improve…

A total of 431 households in Tallahassee, Florida, were contacted to ascertain community perceptions of social policy issues, as required of television stations applying for license renewal. It was found that 10 percent of those contacted could think of no problems; 14 percent could not name a national problem, and 35 percent could not name a…

A series symposia conducted in commemoration of the ground-breaking for the Annenberg School of Communications Building at the University of Southern California explored the ways in which communication technology can ameliorate urban problems in Los Angeles. A portion of the keynote address by Rep. Yvonne Braithwaite Burke, plus summaries of…

Questionnaires returned by science teachers across the country and reaction forms completed by selected high school, college, and adult learners, were analyzed to judge the impact of, and acceptance by public television audiences, of five half-hour programs broadcast in the "Spectrum" science series, produced with financial support from…

A description is provided of the scope of the metrication process, the curricular changes it will bring, and the role of instructional television in metric education. The cognitive and affective impacts of metrication upon adults and children are analyzed, along with the opportunity which it provides to re-examine the role of measurement in the…

Compared were attitudinal characteristics and achievement in a college chemistry course offered by two different instructional methods. The experimental group received closed-circuit television instruction, and the control group was instructed by lecture and recitation. All students were pretested with the American Chemical Society-National…

How can children, disadvantaged as well as middle-class, be taught cognitive skills through the medium of television? This is the question Richard Polsky addresses in describing the planning and early development (1966-1968) of the Children's Television Workshop. An examination of the period prior to the public announcement of the project tells…

A review is presented of the first two years of free public access programing on New York City's cable television (CATV) systems. The report provides some background information on franchising, public access to CATV in New York City, and Federal Communications Commission regulations. It also deals with the public access programing developed; it…

This paper describes the design and implementation of a large scale computer terminal output controller which supervises the transfer of information from a Control Data 6400 Computer to a PLATO IV data network. It discusses the cost considerations leading to the selection of educational television channels rather than telephone lines for…