TO SUPPLY DISADVANTAGED PRESCHOOL CHILDREN WITH CULTURALLY STIMULATING EXPERIENCES, A TV SERIES, "ROUNDABOUT," WAS DESIGNED TO BE USED IN WASHINGTON, D.C. INNER-CITY PRESCHOOL AND DAY CARE CENTERS. THE 15-MINUTE PROGRAMS WERE TO INTRODUCE NEW EXPERIENCES AND SUPPLEMENT REGULAR ACTIVITIES. IT WAS HOPED THAT THE CHILDREN WOULD IDENTIFY…

This booklet contains five papers focusing primarily on the potential of television for contributing to children's learning and prosocial behavior and on the problems involved in realizing this potential. The first paper provides information relevant to child development and learning theory. The second paper discusses the potential power of…

This collection of seminar papers is concerned with the presentation of emotions on the screen, the emotional impact of such presentations on young children, and the use of children's televised drama to foster the development of emotional sensitivity. Also considered are differences in the violence depicted on Japanese and American television, and…

PROGRAM INFORMATION FROM 115 ETV STATIONS FOR THE WEEK APRIL 17-23, 1966, GIVES A GENERAL PICTURE OF EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOR THE YEAR 1966, AND TOGETHER WITH SIMILAR INFORMATION COLLECTED IN 1964, REVEALS TRENDS OVER THAT PERIOD. PROGRAMS FOR THE GENERAL AUDIENCE ARE INCREASING RELATIVE TO OTHER KINDS OF PROGRAMS, AND EMPHASIZE THE ARTS, PUBLIC…

To evaluate the effect of the children's television program "Sesame Street" on Chicano viewers and to identify areas for improvement, the Children's Television Workshop contracted with the Chicano Studies Center at the University of California at Los Angeles to provide the following services: (1) establish observation sites in the Los…

A study by questionnaire attempted to identify the factors controlling the selection or non-selection of available resources in network-broadcast instructional television, and to identify the academic-administrative involvements of those officials--deans, chairmen, and teachers-making decisions on the use of instructional television. Those polled…

An observational system having high inter-rater reliability and providing a reliable estimate of patterns of behavior across time periods is developed and tested for use in evaluating children's responses to a number of television styles and modes of presentation. This project was designed to meet three goals: first, to develop a valid and…

The television viewing habits of television students enrolled in a psychology course or an anthropology course were studied by means of a TV viewing log. In addition to the log, a demographic questionnaire was also filled out. This report is comprised of the data collected during the study, which is presented in 69 tables. Six appendixes provide:…

This book could be a useful supplement in any course dealing with television, such as mass media, communication, film, and humanities. The book is divided into six sections. "The Impact of Television" discusses the impact of television on society, the broadcast media, the Federal Communications Commission, public broadcasting, educational…

This report describes a technique which can be used to provide both formative and summative evaluation of television programs designed to promote educational development in 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children. The daily half-hour program evaluated is part of an Appalachia Educational Laboratory project, now in its second year. (Other project…

Because of the great amount of time children spend watching television and the effect that this may have on their reading achievement, it behooves parents and teachers to be concerned and knowledgeable about the issue. Discusses some methods for developing children's interest in reading through properly guided television viewing and relating…

Shows how the reading teacher can use television as a complementary resource and can transfer to his or her classroom some of the popular formats from "The Electric Company." (EL)

Suggests benefits of a formative evaluation approach to development of educational television. Examples are given of recent Canadian studies in this field in the areas of needs assessment, product and process development, and product utilization. Variables underlying audience responses to media materials are set in the context of attribution…

Describes two studies conducted in The Netherlands that compared two modes of off-air videotape use of educational television programs on mental arithmetic for elementary students. Active use of the videotapes with interruptions for interactive teaching are compared with passive, uninterrupted viewing, and implications for the design of…

This paper offers a comparative analysis of three television news programs aimed at children: the BBC's "Newsround," Nickelodeon's "Nick News," and "Channel One News." Focuses on implicit assumptions about the child viewer, and on the ways in which these are manifested in the selection and framing of content and in…