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KUHT-TV educational television station of the University of Houston and its televised psychology and biology course sections

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Evidence · 2 claims (2 for) · 1 study (1 causal), q2 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study

Description

KUHT-TV is the University of Houston's educational TV station, evaluated for instructional effectiveness and audience reaction. The study enrolled "17 subjects were enrolled in a TV-lecture only (correspondence) section, 96 in a traditional campus lecture section, 30 in a section which had TV-lectures plus two campus discussion periods a week" in psychology, and matched traditional versus TV-plus-discussion sections in biology. An audience telephone questionnaire to 384 people measured viewing behavior and program preferences.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Television lecture delivery, with campus discussion periods added in one psychology section and in the biology TV section

Constraints

  • The traditional psychology class completed the course before the two TV classes began to prevent contamination; there was no preliminary matching or tests for significant basic differences in the psychology course

Target Learners

  • college students in elementary psychology and elementary biology courses
  • Houston-wide television audience

Learning Goals

  • college-level elementary psychology and elementary biology achievement

Claims

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Evans, Richard I.; Roney, H. Burr; and McAdams, Walter J. (1955). An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Instruction and Audience Reaction to Programming an Educational Television Station. Journal of Applied Psychology, 39, 277-79. https://eric.ed.gov
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title KUHT-TV educational television station of the University of Houston and its televised psychology and biology course sections
description KUHT-TV is the University of Houston's educational TV station, evaluated for instructional effectiveness and audience reaction.
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