THIS STUDY WAS PRIMARILY CONCERNED WITH AUDIOVISUAL AIDS AND THEIR USE AND POTENTIAL USE TO ENRICH STUDENT COUNCIL WORK. EIGHTEEN SCHOOLS WERE VISITED FOR THE PURPOSE OF OBTAINING INTERVIEWS WITH SPONSORS AND STUDENT COUNCIL MEMBERS. IT WAS GENERALLY FOUND THAT FAVORABLE AND CLEARLY DEFINED OPPORTUNITIES PRESENT THEMSELVES FOR STRENGTHENING THE…

IN AN EFFORT TO PROVIDE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF MOTIVATION AND TO INVESTIGATE SOME POSSIBLE MEANS FOR INCREASING THE MOTIVATION OF STUDENTS, MOTION PICTURES AND PRINTED COMMUNICATIONS WHICH ILLUSTRATED PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS WERE TESTED. SUBJECTS FOR THE STUDY WERE DRAWN FROM FIRST-YEAR ALGEBRA CLASSES FROM 17 HIGH…

This paper argues that the conditions that have historically supported the regulation of the telecommunications industry in the United States have been reproduced around the world and exist most formidably within the developing nations. In support of this argument, the paper examines several key periods in United States regulatory history. It then…

The bibliography contains a list of 90 names and addresses of sources of audiovisual instructional materials. For each title a brief description of content, the source, purchase price, rental fee or free use for 16MM films, sound-slidefilms, tapes-records, and transparencies is given. Materials are listed separately by topics: (1) advertising and…

The music oriented films and filmstrips in this catalog were produced for use on instructional, educational, or commercial television, or were designed to be used in a specific area and at a specific level of music teaching. Many of the listings should be of interest to teachers of general music at the secondary school level. Two indices are…

Intended to provide the user with alphabetical access to over 9,000 nonbook educational media producer-distributor names and addresses, this volume was compiled from the computerized data base of the National Information Center for Educational Media (NICEM). First, an alphabetical guide to producers and distributors by name is presented containing…

This document reports the results of an evaluation of the protocol film series "Concepts and Patterns in Teacher Pupil Interaction." Both concept acquisition and user reactions were evaluated. Concept acquisition was tested using two studies, a pre- and posttest design and a posttest only design. Experimental groups in both studies scored…

English is made up of literature (the art of letters) and its essential component, language. Media adaptations may make literary works superficially more vivid, but since all such adaptations are divorced from the form of the original, they all differ from the original in important respects. While teachers must point out the significant…

Resource materials on general semantics--lists of books, audiovisual resources, games, photographs, and films--are arranged under four headings: "Primary and Early Childhood Education,""Intermediate Reading List,""Junior and Senior High School," and "Teachers' Reading List." Introductory material includes reasons for teaching general semantics,…

This pamphlet from The Madison Project announces the release of films and other materials for a supplementary mathematics program for grades 2 through 8, and for a course in ninth grade algebra. These materials are designed to be used in conjunction with the regular school program in arithmetic and mathematics. Among the films available are (1) A…

This paper discusses the acquisition of second-language skills through the use of visual aids. In teaching English as a second language, pictures, slides, and film loops are usually presented with appropriate, and more or less predictable, spoken or written English. These visual images, however, may arouse interests beyond the answers provided by…

Over 500 entries are listed in this bibliography of materials available about the American Indian. The purpose of the publication is to stimulate and encourage the purchase of more of these materials for libraries and classroom collections. Books, films, and filmstrips are listed along with the publisher or company producing the items. (RH)

This discussion guide was prepared to accompany a 26 1/2-minute, black and white 16 mm. film, "Teams for Learning," which portrays teams of teachers and auxiliary personnel in action in four types of schools. A brief outline of the film, the purpose of which is to stimulate discussion and behavior analysis among team members during their training,…

A visual information display and retrieval system (VID-R) is described for application to visual records. VID-R searches and retrieves events by time address (location) or by previously stored ovservations or measurements. Fields are labeled by writing discriminable binary addresses on the horizontal lines outside the normal viewing area. The…

A comprehensive set of rules having the widest practical utility in all types of organizations engaged in the collection and use of nonbook materials is proposed. Since this code is also offered as a draft revision to the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR), it is correlated to the AACR and, when appropriate, provides reference to it. The…