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A supplement to the final report, "Design for an Analysis and Assessment of the Education Satellite Communications Demonstration (ESCD)," this document is both: (1) a separable, sociologically oriented evaluation of the ESCD impact on Alaskan native villages; and (2) a direct extension of the work described in sections 4 and 5 in the…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Educational Assessment, Educational Television, Evaluation
Download full textPractical Concepts, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1974
A second bimonthly report describes progress made on six tasks enumerated in earlier reports and specifically points out three new issues raised by the demonstration: the question of the use of telecommunication for other than educational purposes, the discrepancy between the project's concept and reality, and the usefulness of a project for…
Descriptors: Communications, Communications Satellites, Community Involvement, Demonstration Programs
Practical Concepts, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1974
A bimonthly report describes a recent work to determine the use of satellite educational television in remote and isolated rural communities, especially those inhabited by native Alaskans. It is believed that educational satellite communication has its greatest potential in Alaska because of these conditions. The report describes the scope of the…
Descriptors: Communications, Communications Satellites, Demonstration Programs, Demonstrations (Educational)
Practical Concepts, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1974
A 3-month evaluation design effort developed a strategy and implementation plan for a policy level evaluation of the Educational Satellite Communications Demonstration (ESCD). The final report of the effort covers: (1) development of the evaluation strategy and plan; (2) data collection and analysis; (3) measurement of the impact of satellite TV…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Content Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Data Analysis
Forbes, Norma – 1984
The report summarizes information from a 5-year study, begun in 1977, of the effects of the introduction of commercial and educational television to isolated communities in rural Alaska. It is intended primarily for residents of villages which participated in the study, for the staff of the schools which were involved, and for Alaskan policy…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, Cognitive Development, Commercial Television
Forbes, Norma; And Others – 1984
A 5-year study of the social and cognitive effects of the introduction of commercial and educational television on rural Alaskan children utilized a variety of social and cognitive measures given to both longitudinal and cross-sectional samples of grade-school children: in 1977, when no participating village received television; in 1979, when half…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, Cognitive Development, Commercial Television
