Investigation of the effects of an in-school curriculum designed to encourage children's awareness of and attention to television's prosocial portrayals revealed that the curriculum was successful in helping children to isolate and identify commercial television's prosocial fare. (Author/CB)

Provides a check list for principals to use in assessing the use they are making of professionally prepared school television materials. (IRT)

This column presents 15 practical TV literacy ideas which a teacher can use to spark up a teaching year with no red tape, special funding, or planning. (Author/KC)

Provides examples of innovative use of television in teaching students and providing teacher inservice training. (IRT)

Discusses two studies to teach children to be more critical of commercial appeals by showing them instructional films that teach how commercials attempt to persuade. Indicates that those who view the most television gain most from the films. (JMF)

A program of cooperative instruction making maximum use of educational television for 24 elementary schools and 2 high schools in American Samoa is described. The instructional team consists of studio teacher, research teacher, producer-director, librarian, classroom teacher, technical personnel. The team prepares cooperatively, the various stages…

Suggests techniques for helping students to recognize emotional content in books or television programs and to understand how authors use emotion as a story device. (Author/SJL)

Describes an educational TV series, broadcast in Pennsylvania, called Science for the Seventies (SFTS), which presents science lessons for the elementary level. Each lesson consists of objectives, background information, an equipment list, and four or five related science activities. (MLH)

Reports on a conference of the American Chemical Society in which ways to increase children's interest and exposure to science were discussed. (CP)

A study was arranged in a pre/postexperimental/control design, in which fifth graders in the experimental group viewed 30 half-hour telecasts of "Square One TV." Results indicated significant gains for the treatment group both in diversity of problem-solving capabilities and in measures of completeness and sophistication of mathematical…

The current period in mathematics education can be characterized as one of reform. Many feel that children in the United States are not learning enough appropriate mathematics; these critics are concerned with the specific areas of problem solving and children's conceptions of the nature and uses of mathematics. A pretest/posttest experimental…

IN 1963, THE PEACE CORPS, WITH FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM THE AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, AGREED TO HELP THE COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT ESTABLISH A NATIONWIDE EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION SYSTEM DIRECTED PRIMARILY AT IMPROVING PUBLIC EDUCATION. THE TWO YEAR PROJECT, BEGUN IN 1964, HAD TWO MAJOR CONCERNS--TO PRODUCE TELEVISED COURSES AND TO CREATE A…

Drawing on international studies concerning leisure attitudes, media consumption, and parental impact on the television viewing decisions of 4- to 14-year olds, this paper focuses on the importance of developing a coherent media education policy for pre- and primary-school children, parents, elementary school teachers, and television station…