A complete, detailed cost-effectiveness analysis of the Mexican Telesecundaria. (HB)

The introduction, costs, efficiency, effect on students and teachers, and problems caused by the installation of instructional television into the El Salvador educational system are examined. (DE)

A detailed account and critique of the 1967 Salvadoran Educational Reform places particular emphasis on the role of instructional television (ITV) and its relation as the pacesetter for the whole educational system. It discusses foreign assistance through UNESCO, The World Bank, US/AID and Japan, and comments on several feasibility studies. In…

Analyzes the transfer of "Sesame Street" to Brazil and Mexico. Explains how the short-run success and long-run failure of the transfer can be found in the nature of the supplier-receiver relationships and in the emphasis on product transfer rather than process modification and adjustment. (PD)

"Telesecundaria" has for the past six years attempted to provide secondary education (grades 7-9) by television to those students who would normally not be able to continue their education beyond the primary level. The study reported here aimed to evaluate the system, especially its cost-effectiveness, suggest strategies for improvement,…

In lesser developed countries, interest has been growing in the role evaluation plays in the improvement of media-based education programs. Such programs include the use of television or radio to communicate a useful message to students, the general populace, or a particular group (such as mothers or small farmers). The message to be communicated…

A detailed report describes the planning, development, operation, results, and problems of an experiment in instructional television in El Salvador. Unlike other developing countries, El Salvador conceived of educational television as an integral component of national educational reform, embracing curriculum revision, teacher training, and new…

Research compared Mexico's television-based Telesecundaria (TS) with its more traditional secondary school counterpart, the Ensenanza Directa (ED). The data collected indicated that the TS schools tended to be located in poorer rural communities and to have larger classes and less adequate facilities; its students were generally older and from…

This booklet discusses, in the context of low-income countries, a series of planning issues bridging education and communication. The planning issues include the democratization of educational opportunity, the quality of instruction and learning, the impact of education through technology on rural areas, and the participation of people in their…