San Francisco State University - Franciscan Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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San Francisco State College, with the aid of the Ba- educational television station KQED, began an experimental study of educational television during 1956-57. v Area The over-all objective of the experiment was to measure the effectiveness of television education as opposed to classroom edu- cation. To do a good job ttechnicallyl it was necessary to pro- cure the services of experienced personnel from station KQED. including writers. directors, producers. and staging experts. Production ol' the broadcasts was under the direction of Dr. David Parker of State's Radio-TV department. Mr. Orville Coldner, Audio-Visual Director ol San Francisco State. was the Visual Director for the televised classes. Len Hansen and Dick Christian were student producers. The primary purpose of the TV experiment was to determine whether television is recommendable as a remedy for over- crowded classes. The degree to which TV is inferior or superior. the cost of such an adventure, the implications for the college. the performance of noncollege groups, and the effect upon the instructional stail in preparing and presenting telecourses, are also important considerations which may be solved by experi- mental television. For a project that is so vast and has so many implications. the planning of the exact procedure was a difficult task. The following is a brief resume of this procedure. '4The experimental ttelevisionl and control tnormal campus classl groups for this study were selected from students who volunteered to participate in the project. In cases where students were willing to participate in only one of the groups. they were assigned to the group of their preference. Those students willing to participate in any of the groups were randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups. Initial volunteers, when assigned to groups, were to have roughly comparable A.C.FI. and grade point averages. Discrepancies in general ability levels among the final student groups are handled statistically. HBoth practical and research considerations have led to modification of the original designation of groups to be used in the study. The first ol these was the elimination of the control group taught by an instructor other than the instructor teaching the TV group. Experimentally, it did not seem 'feasible to handle the instructor introduced by this. And practically, there loomed the problem of finding control subjects who would take a heavy afternoon schedule of classes. Therefore. just one control group. tContinued on page 211

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