A COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY IS PRESENTED COVERING PUBLISHED REPORTS AND PAPERS FROM 1945 TO 1961 ON THE DEVELOPMENT, APPLICATION, AND EVALUATION OF NEW EDUCATIONAL MEDIA IN EUROPE. THE BIBLIOGRAPHY IS BROADLY BASED AND INCLUDES ACADEMIC RESEARCH, EXPLORATORY WORK, EXPERIMENTS WITH NEW METHODS, AND SURVEYS. ENTRIES ARE CLASSIFIED UNDER 10…

Many recent studies on computer-mediated communication (CMC) have addressed the question of orality and literacy. This article examines a relatively recent subgenre of CMC, that of written online sports commentary, that provides us with written CMC that is clearly based on firmly established oral genres, those of radio and television sports…

Reports that the subject of leadership ranked high, but party policy was not ignored in editorials in four major British newspapers during the 1979 British general election. (FL)

School reform involves the public: its expectation of participation and its support for a reform agenda. In theory, the press influences both. To explore this link, we compare education coverage in four press outlets, two each in Chicago and Cleveland. Articles and editors are interrogated for (1) style of journalism and (2) assumptions about the…

Describes evaluation methods currently in use by the BBC's advisory councils and by external researchers in collaboration with them. (BR)

Eight brief research reports concerning, among other topics, the world news coverage of United States and international broadcasters, the image of the adolescent in the English press, the content of Taiwan's English and Chinese press, and newspaper inaccuracies and readers' perception of bias. (FL)

Suggests that the reason important parts of the communication field have failed to engage developments within communications is because of a rapid march up the blind alley of cultural studies. Relates the authors' experience working with the Broadcasting Research Unit in London to suggest some of the ways in which policy and policy debates can,…

This is the third in a series of reports of a four-year research and development project of the Department of Education at the University College of Swansea, Wales. The aims of the project are: (1) to provide techniques which identify children in need of compensatory education at an early age; (2) to study longitudinally infant school children in…

Reviews and analyzes criticisms of the design of media evaluation studies; suggests guidelines for future evaluation studies, including analyses of learning theories and desired learning outcomes; and describes the application of the evaluative guidelines to an interactive video in an English comprehensive school with 14-year-olds. (Contains 26…

This paper argues that current and impending changes in the media industries in Britain, France, and Belgium will stimulate a more positive relationship between these industries and undergraduate communication studies. Topics discussed include: (1) the attitudes of both the industry and academic researchers toward research and its relationship…

This review of research on computer use in education focuses on the development of higher order thinking skills and the effects of programming instruction. Eight hypotheses are proposed to account for the general failure of the research to confirm the expectations, and a new programming language, Prolog, is described. (70 references) (Author/LRW)

This study of 272 13-year-old science students in England focuses on the effect of varied text and picture content on learning. A criterion-referenced objective items test was used to measure the effect of pictures on students of varying abilities and compare the effectiveness of traditional worksheet presentation and microcomputer presentation.…