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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
Shapiro, Bernadette Nelson – 1975
A study assessed children's comprehension of Sesame Street programing that is designed to encourage socially valued behavior and whether the children relate the programing to their own living experiences. Material relating to four goal areas was tested: 1) entering social groups; 2) coping with failure; 3) coping with basic emotions; and 4) sex…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Black Youth, Comprehension, Disadvantaged Youth
Download full textCorporation for Public Broadcasting, Washington, DC. – 1997
This summary provides an overview of the findings from the 1997 Study of School Uses of Television and Video, which surveyed principals (n=1,059) and teachers (n=1,285) throughout the U.S. The study analyzed key measures of the use of television and video for instruction in U.S. schools in terms of availability of equipment, programming, support,…
Descriptors: Cable Television, Classroom Techniques, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Television
Peer reviewedStroman, Carolyn A. – Journal of Negro Education, 1991
Examines television's role in the social development of Black children, including television's use, socialization content, potential antisocial and prosocial effects, and television as an educator. concludes that television is a significant player in the socialization (cognitive and social learning) of Black children with positive and negative…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Youth, Blacks, Child Development
Mendelsohn, Harold; And Others – 1968
This report presents a pioneering effort in the use of television in bringing to a particular sub-population, the disadvantaged, the particular kinds of information which could dispel ignorance in certain key informational areas. From information gathered by a 337-item questionnaire covering demographic characteristics, attitudes, communication…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Audiences, Communication (Thought Transfer), Consumer Education
Ball, Samuel; Bogatz, Gerry Ann – 1970
The Educational Testing Service evaluated the Sesame Street educational television series to determine the extent to which it accomplished its stated objectives during its first year. Research results showed that Sesame Street benefited children from low-income inner-city areas and isolated rural areas as well as children from middle-class…
Descriptors: Audiences, Basic Skills, Broadcast Industry, Disadvantaged Youth
Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Washington, DC. – 1992
Important changes in classroom television and the technologies that accompany it have taken place. Videocassette recorders have become more plentiful, giving teachers greater flexibility in presentation and scheduling; the growth of program delivery systems such as videocassettes, satellite, cable, and broadcast services has given educators more…
Descriptors: Cable Television, Communications Satellites, Educational Television, Elementary Secondary Education
GROOMBRIDGE, BRIAN; AND OTHERS – 1966
STUDIES ON THE EDUCATIONAL USES AND POTENTIAL OF TELEVISION IN CANADA, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, AND JAPAN OUTLINE AND DISCUSS (1) THE SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT OF ETV IN EACH NATION, (2) KINDS OF PROGRAMS AND THEIR PURPOSES, (3) EXPLOITATION OF ETV BY ADULTS, (4) RESEARCH ON AUDIENCE CHARACTERISTICS AND NEEDS, AND (5) FORMS OF COOPERATION BETWEEN…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Agency Cooperation, Audience Participation
Lee, John A. – 1971
Scarborough College of the University of Toronto was the first North American college planned from its inception for television. Closed-circuit television was fully integrated into its physical fabric and academic program. Videotaped lectures, backed up by small group discussions, were to replace many live lectures. The plan was calculated not…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Audiences, Closed Circuit Television, College Faculty
Peer reviewedPoltorak, David I. – History Teacher, 1991
Discusses the importance of television in history and citizenship education in Soviet schools. Describes studies dealing with the effects of mass communications media on the educational process. Urges the integration of subject matter conveyed to students via television with that acquired in the classroom to foster development of theoretical…
Descriptors: Audience Participation, Citizenship Education, Creative Thinking, Current Events
Diambra, Henry M.; And Others – 1975
VIDAC (Video Audio Compressed), a new technology based upon non-real-time transmission of audiovisual information via conventional television systems, has been invented by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation. This system permits time compression, during storage and transmission of the audio component of a still visual-narrative audio…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Communications Satellites, Delivery Systems, Educational Media
Peer reviewedAnderson, Daniel R.; Huston, Aletha C.; Schmitt, Kelly L.; Linebarger, Deborah L.; Wright, John C. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2001
Followed up on 570 adolescents studied as preschoolers. Found that preschoolers' viewing of educational television programs was associated with achieving higher grades, reading more books, placing more value on achievement, exhibiting greater creativity, and behaving less aggressively as adolescents more consistently for boys than girls. Found…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Aggression, Body Image
Huge, Terry L. – 1990
Unavoidable absences of both students and teachers in college preparatory math classes adversely affected achievement and produced academic frustration in a moderately affluent urban high school. In order to reduce the frustration level and to promote continuity and meaningful activity on teacher absence days, videotaped reviews of material…
Descriptors: Attendance, Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Instruction, Educational Television
Gueulette, David G. – 1993
Given the explosion in the use of instructional television, it is especially important that it be used appropriately in international and multicultural classrooms. In 1990, a team of researchers at Northern Illinois University (De Kalb) began to compile findings from a study of the most critical audience factors with impacts on the design and…
Descriptors: Bulletins, Critical Viewing, Cultural Differences, Diversity (Student)
McFarland, Suzanne L. – 1992
This study of the use of television in full-day child care tested a variety of ways to use the Public Broadcasting Corporation's television program Mister Rogers' Neighborhood in child care programs. Part 1 presents the results of an initial survey of child care centers and home care providers in the Toledo, Ohio metropolitan area, while part 2…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Child Caregivers, Childrens Television, Cognitive Development
