The management, administration, production, and broadcasting of educational television are discussed and evaluated with respect to its use in elementary education, training of teachers, and out-of-school education in the Ivory Coast during the 1970s. (CHC)

Fifteen teachers from Edmonton (Alberta), receiving face to face instruction about Landsat satellite maps, were compared to 15 teachers from Sherwood Park (Alberta) who received instruction by one-way television and simultaneous group conferencing. Pupils taught by both groups performed equally well. These results indicate television group…

The teacher's guide to the "Carrascolendas 500 Series," a bilingual (Spanish/English) television program geared toward encouraging affective learning in 6- to 9-year-olds, provides information about the main points made in each of the 39 programs in the series. It gives teachers general tips on how to use the series to explore important…

This teaching guide accompanies a series of five half-hour television programs for children 7 through 12 years of age that depict Chinese American children in a variety of situations that foster a sense of group and individual identity. The emphasis of the series is on affective learning. The following issues are dealt with: (1) the ramifications…

This teaching guide accompanies 10 half-hour television programs designed to improve the self-esteem of Franco-American children, 9-13 years of age. Each episode explores a specific area of contemporary Franco-American life in a northeastern mill town. The characters discover that their ethnic heritage and identity are often in conflict with life…

Junius Eddy is an independent consultant for education in the arts. (IRT)

This paper describes "Investigative Science in Elementary Education," a project undertaken by the Pennsylvania Department of Education to enable elementary school teachers to make the transition from traditional science instruction to a more modern program. The development of a teacher guide and the methods used to disseminate the…

MeasureMetric is a school television/film series for fifth and sixth grade students which presents measurement and the metric system. The main goal of this test development effort was to produce a valid and reliable test usable by classroom teachers for measuring children's achievement of the objectives of the twelve 15-minute programs dealing…

A large-scale summative, comparative evaluation of "Patterns in Arithmetic" (PIA), a modern televised arithmetic curriculum for grades 1-6 was carried out in grades 1-4 in both rural and urban schools during the 1970-71 school year. This report deals with the results of monitoring procedures carried out, and student achievement as measured by pre-…

A status report on museums and media prefaces the annotated references listed in this paper. Futuristic proposals have been made for a Museum of Media that would be all media and no objects, and for a museum environment individualized by computer and visual previews of the galleries. The museums of today use films, slide-tapes, sound recordings,…

Quebec's history of adult education dates back to informal groups among the early settlers, and has been a continuing tradition since that time. Various groups -- social and religious organizations, labor unions, and societies established specifically to foster education -- have sponsored programs such as night schools and correspondence courses.…

An overview of the full range of educational broadcasts offered by Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK) is presented. Nippon Hoso Kyokai, which translates to English as Japan Broadcasting Company, is the only public service broadcasting organization in Japan; it operates two AM radio networks, one FM network, and two television networks and is completely…

An evaluation was made of an educational television series called "Infinity Factory." The series was designed to teach elementary school children various math skills useful in everyday life. This volume consists of the appendixes to the evaluation report. It includes abstracts of the analysis of the first eight shows, pretest/posttest…

Presented is an overview of the full range of educational and cultural broadcasts offered by Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK). NHK, or the Japan Broadcasting Company, is the only public service broadcasting organization in Japan. It produces instructional programs from the kindergarten level to high school via its television and radio network. These…

The roles of summative and formative evaluation as scientific approaches to theory building in instructional television programing for children are examined through a review of research studies. The author contends that the bias toward summative evaluation has been premature in an area of inquiry, where most of the variables are yet to be…