Showing papers in "Educational Technology Research and Development in 1957"

Automation and education: II. Automatizing the classroom-background of the effort

Abstract: This paper has attempted to deal with two aspects of the problem of automatizing the classroom through audio-visual means. These aspects were: (a) the institutional background in which the earlier foundation support of the audio-visual movement by the Payne Fund and the Rockefeller Foundation was compared to the present, much more extensive support of the mass audio-visual approach to teaching supported by the Ford Foundation, its several Funds and the organizations which it underwrites; and (b) the theoretical position requiring audio-visual automation which was shown to be based on the teacher and plant shortage facing this country in the next two decades of swelling school and college enrollments and, therefore, necessitating technological solutions to problems of class size and building space.

Mass communication media, reading comprehension, and intelligence

Abstract: This study investigated the relaaudio-visual communications, Califortionships between the reading comprenia State Polytechnic College, Kellogghension and intelligence of junior high Voorhis Campus, Pomona, California. school students and their use of the This paper is based upon his doctoral mass communication media. Robert M. dissertation completed at the UniverSekerak is head of the department of sity of Southern California.