Research was undertaken to compare the attitudes toward instructional media of seconeary education majors who took a full course in media with those of comparable students who received an introduction to media as part of a general methods course. Based on the previous findings that improved attitude led to improved and more effective utilization,…

This paper describes a cooperative program among the public schools, local Parent Teacher Associations, and the Auburn University Education Department in Montgomery, Alabama. In the program, Auburn University students were enrolled in block courses in the areas of language arts, social studies, mathematics, and science and worked from four to six…

In an attempt to pull together a basic reference shelf on the use of instructional materials in the classroom, this bibliography contains 69 selected ERIC abstracts of the most relevant and up-to-date indexes, resource guides, directories, "how-to's", and state-of-the-art reviews dealing with the use of audiovisual materials in education. Selected…

This resource handbook provides a summary of the media resources available concerning women. Emphasis is placed on some questions to consider in planning a film festival, suggestions for reducing costs, feature length films pertinent to women's roles, films shown at the first International Festival of Women's Films, short films, slide programs,…

Reported is a study investigating the use of sequential still photographs rather than motion picture or slides as a media for instructional purposes for a botany course at the university level. Six experimental groups of randomly chosen students viewed visual materials presenting given concepts by three modes--motion pictures, slides, and…

This information package was developed by the Texas Information Service (TIS) to provide Texas educators with practical information on individualizing instruction. In addition to information on programs and practices, items on related concepts and instructional materials were included. The general contents of the package were divided into two…

This study investigated the effect of varying the time at which verbal directions are presented to students involved in a learning situation. Four randomly selected Biology 251 sections (309 students) were pretested on knowledge of symbiosis and found to be equivalent. The intact classes were then assigned at random to four treatments. Each class…

The purpose of the institute was to update school librarians in elementary and secondary schools and enable them to gain competency in the new media. The objectives of the institute were to assist the school librarian in the selection, processing and utilization of nonbook media, to learn simple techniques in production of materials, and to…

Technology has allowed modern educators greater flexibility than ever before. We cannot assume that one method of teaching is correct for every teacher, for every subject, and even for one teacher at all times. This is especially true in use of audiovisual media. Various types of materials and various ways of presenting them are necessary.…

Media for instruction can be characterized as big (expensive) or little (inexpensive), but research evidence suggests that whether a student learns more from one medium than another depends at least as much on how the medium is used as on what medium is used. Thus, this report discusses not only example programs and their results, but also…

In 1967, El Salvador initiated a comprehensive educational reform centering around the use of instructional television (ITV) in grades 7, 8, and 9. Other aspects of the Reform included extensive teacher retraining, curriculum revision, and extensive building of new schoolrooms, among other things. The cost of the reform through 1973 will total…

GRADES OR AGES: Grades 7-9. SUBJECT MATTER: Physical Health, Sensory Perception. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The format consists of four columns: a basic context guide for teachers, a listing of major understandings and fundamental concepts which children can achieve, resource materials for classroom teachers, and supplementary…

Within the context of cooperative education, audiovisual aids may be used for spreading the idea of cooperatives and helping to consolidate study groups; for the continuous process of education, both formal and informal, within the cooperative movement; for constant follow up purposes; and for promoting loyalty to the movement. Detailed…

Tested was a method of learning numeration, addition, and subtraction using measuring operations in place of the more usual counting operations. It is claimed that an approach through "units of measurement" to continuous variables is mathematically more powerful than counting, which leads only to nominal and ordinal variables. Twelve children…

This study investigated the effect of play-like behavior on the learning of elementary arithmetic. Kindergarten children from one school were pretested on addition and subtraction of the numbers zero through five; and eight groups of five subjects were randomly selected from those scoring below the mean. These groups were then randomly assigned to…