Year: 1962
Type: article
Abstract: In addition to meeting educational objectives, this research was stimulated, in part, by the limitations of education-by-television or television teaching.It is characteristic that this work is not concerned with the problems of television versus non television but rather with problem-solving versus conventional methodology as used with television.Specific concern is, however, with objectives related to thinking and the solving of health problems.In recent experience, staff members of the Physical Education Department of The Ohio State University have expressed considerable consternation regarding the emphasis of factual information versus the lack of problem-solving in the required Health Education 400 course.As a result of a study supported in part by the Ford Foundation in 1959, the Men's and Women's Department 1 2 of Physical Education combined their efforts to experiment with educational television.A series of experiments in class organization and the utilization of Revision were run and evaluated by the Bureau of Educational Research and Service of the University.'*'Suffice, at this time, to say, the experiments showed that teaching with television was as good as, and some instances better 2 than non-television.The measure of achievement was a gain score of an objective-factual pre and post test.During the early stages of the study, the Advisory Committee and other staff members raised the question of teaching with television for other than factual achieve ment, namely problem-solving, and eventually the present study was undertaken.Background of the Problem In all the history of man, knowledge has never accumulated at as rapid a rate as in this m o d e m era.It is said that knowledge will double in ten years whereas centuries were required before.Facts are not only ^Bureau of Educational Research and Service, ''The Greater Columbus Area Instructional Television Project" (Columbus, Ohio: WOSU-TV, The Ohio State University, 1962), pp.58-11^+.(Mimeographed.)Q
Author: Robert M. Kaplan
Institution: The Ohio State University
Language: English
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W634159094