The challenge for the educational advisor to Australian television show "Play School" is to make theory and philosophy of early childhood education accessible, relevant, and clearly articulated during production process. Advisor must attend to the selection of setting, staging, materials, and camera shots; the use of language; and the…

Describes the use of instructional television and cable programing in Prince George's County (Maryland) Public Schools. Topics discussed include operation of an educational access channel; programing produced by the school district; master's degree courses offered in conjunction with George Washington University; satellite programs; and two-way…

Discussion of developments in British television broadcasting that affect educational television focuses on Open University television productions. Topics discussed include advantages of broadcasting for distance education; growth in the use of video cassettes; current access to video equipment; and possible future developments for the 1990s.…

Does viewing Between the Lions, an educational television series featuring literacy instruction, improve the emergent literacy skills of kindergarten and first-grade children? Do improvements vary as a function of the child's initial reading risk status? In this study, higher word recognition and standardized reading test scores were noted for all…

Reflecting the concern which has been generated over the influence of television viewing on society at large, this "FAST Bib" presents annotations of 31 ERIC documents and journal articles published between 1989 and 1992. Annotations in the FAST Bib are divided into five sections: (1) Overview; (2) The Connection between Television and…

Television is widely used in Ontario (Canada) public schools and is appreciated for making teaching more effective. Yet studies on the effectiveness of television as a learning tool outside of the classroom are ambivalent: many have claimed television to have a negative effect on learning, while others show neutral or moderately positive effects.…

This paper argues that a completed study pertaining to the various factors involved in the proper recognition and aesthetic application of moving images (primarily television pictures) should consider: (1) the individual viewer's general self-awareness, knowledge, expertise, confidence, values, beliefs, and motivation; (2) the viewer's…

Major collections of research contributions on the fundamental nature of children's television viewing have been compiled in this book. Each chapter presents the assumptions, methodologies, theories, and major research findings of a particular research program or tradition. Chapters 1 through 4 are directed toward the examination of children's…

For television to be used effectively, teachers need to reorganize their teaching to increase the children's interaction with the program material. One way of getting more participation is to preview and pre-record a program, stopping the replayed cassette at key points, questioning the class, and having them discuss the sequence just seen.…

To develop a conceptual framework for understanding the environmental variables that affect the impact of classroom television, the use of the instructional television series "ThinkAbout" (Agency for Instructional Television) was studied under natural classroom conditions using observations recorded as part of a series of studies…

Using a new telephone-observation methodology which permitted low-cost observation of home television viewing behaviors, this study examined how families use home television, parental involvement in their children's television viewing, and families' educational use of home television. Following initial calls to 2,922 household phones, a total of…

This report presents a pilot study which collected preadolescents' retrospective reports of their preschool experiences with the television program, "Sesame Street." One-hundred-five fifth and sixth graders ranging from 9 to 12 years of age were asked to think back to when they viewed "Sesame Street" in their younger years and…

This resource book examines the relations between the teacher, the student, and television; provides concrete teaching models which demonstrate breadth and depth in learning through television; indicates that curriculum planning and design which ignores television does so at the expense of a wealth of learning that is best provided through the…

This study, conducted prior to the installation of daily prime-time television programming in areas of rural Alaska previously without commercial television service, was designed to provide a foundation of pre-television baseline data against which to measure the social and behavioral effects of television on this multicultural population.…

A human ecological approach to the study of children's television viewing raises questions that researchers have largely neglected. Does television influence the interaction patterns of socializing agents with children and with one another? Are there long-term, psychological consequences of unintegrated and competing influences from television and…