To gauge reactions to the developmental testing of the broadcast component of an Arts Foundation Course, 18 members of the team identified as either producer or academic on a television or radio program tested were sent questionnaires containing open response type questions. In addition, the views of members of the Institute of Educational…

Radio is recognized as a powerful but underutilized educational medium, and ways of improving the cost-effectiveness of the educational use of radio are discussed. Topics include the meaning of and need for cost effectiveness analysis, building an information system for cost effectiveness analysis, and five factors affecting cost…

This transcript of a National Public Radio program discusses the subject of teacher effectiveness under the following topics: (1) rating teachers by student test scores; (2) observation method of teacher evaluation; (3) self-evaluation of teachers; (4) subtle ways of weeding out ineffective teachers; (5) impact of accountability on the teaching…

THE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR ADULT EDUCATION PRESENTS ITS VIEWS ON EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOR ADULTS IN CANADA. IT ARGUES FOR AN IMMEDIATE PLAN OF CHANNEL RESERVATIONS ENTIRELY FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES TO BE IMPLEMENTED THROUGHOUT CANADA IN BOTH VHF AND UHF. IT CALLS FOR AN ALL-CHANNEL BILL REQUIRING THAT ALL SETS SOLD IN CANADA BE CAPABLE OF…

The main objective of the program was to obtain qualitative data on the value of Radio Farm Forums (RFF), to both the farmers and the extension service, in terms of facilitating two-way communication between the two parties. The concept of RFF is to provide agricultural information through integrated use of mass media and interpersonal…

The closing of a college is the topic of the third in a series of four transcripts of radio programs on college today. The dialogue includes: a press conference at Lone Mountain College, with a discussion of financial problems by the president and comments by Lone Mountain's student body president, college vice president, art department chairman,…

The Office of Learning Resources at the State University of New York at Oswego was created to increase the effectiveness and the efficiency of teaching and learning by providing a wide variety of options to traditional classroom activities. The office encourages the development of teaching styles that best meet the needs of individual students by…

Membership in the National Association of Educational Broadcasters is listed by individuals and by institutional associates, including school systems and colleges, community corporations, state authorities, and commercial and manufacturing firms. Titles, addresses, and affiliations are provided for individual members. A telephone directory of…

This report of a 1968 survey of educational television (ETV) in Canada presents information in seven sections. The first section, dealing with ETV in the schools, describes programs for national and local levels, the number and types of viewers of ETV, inservice workshops for teachers in how to use ETV, policy plans for equal opportunity among the…

Station WNYC, New York, began operation in 1924 as a means of improving police and fire department services and raising the educational and cultural level of the citizenry. However, Mayor Hylan tried to use WNYC for personal political purposes; and until 1933, under Mayors Walker, McKee, and O'Brien, the station was handicapped by the Hylan…

Because mass media form one of the most important means of adult education, this two-volume textbook teaches the educational uses of radio. Instructions and sample scripts are included for talk, interview, discussion, magazine, feature, and drama programs. Each section is followed by questions to test the student's memory of basic concepts and…

In an effort to reach widely dispersed Indian children and provide them with an early education that will encourage them to enroll in conventional schools after the fourth grade, Jesuit missionaries in a mountainous rural area of Mexico have provided a radio school since 1955. The evaluation reported here reveals that the radio schools have been…

The audiovisual (AV) field has been expanding rapidly, although in the last year or so there is evidence of a healthy slowing down in growth. This fourth edition of the guide to the AV industry represents an attempt to keep abreast of the information and to provide a single publication listing the many types of AV organizations and products which…

This report gives a full description of the broadcasting and operation of WHRS-FM, a FM radio station established by federal grant to serve migrant workers and their children in Palm Beach County, Florida. The goal of the project was to evaluate FM radio as a solution to the serious economic and educational problem of communicating with the…