Title VII grant and contract program for research on new educational media under the National Defense Education Act

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Evidence · 6 claims (5 for, 1 mixed) · 1 study (1 theoretical), q1 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 6 claims rest on one study

Description

A U.S. Office of Education program that awarded research grants and contracts for investigating the instructional effectiveness and development of educational media.

Components

Claims

• Almost half of the approved Title VII grants compare the instructional effectiveness of various media with conventional approaches to instruction. [+W]
• About one-third of Title VII grants have been made for the study of televised teaching. [+W]
• An increase in the study of self-instructional approaches and their production variables is a promising recent trend in Title VII research. [+W]
• Two gaps remain in Title VII research coverage: multi-media total learning systems, and the administration and organization of education systems for optimum use of instructional media. [~W]
• Title VII stimulated researchers to concentrate on relationships of educational media to instruction, broadening the Ford Foundation's earlier focus on educational television to a wider array of media applications. [+W]
• The possibilities of the electronic computer as an instructional tool had been almost completely ignored in Title VII research. [+W]

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Key Sources

• William H. Allen, Editor. (1961). The Meaning of Title VII. AVCR. https://eric.ed.gov

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