"The purposes of this study are: I. To survey, through the questionnaire method and through the examination of the literature in the field, the general practice of using student operators of audio-visual equipment. II. To determine the best method of using students as projectionists in relationship to the student as well as the service rendered the school. III. To produce a projectionist's manual for the use of students training to operate audio-visual equipment. It is realized that there are on the market several audio-visual operator's manuals; also those produced by commercial concerns to accompany various pieces of equipment, but through personal experience and the experience of others the writer feels that all of these manuals are too technical for use by elementary and high school students. Therefore the primary purpose of this study is to produce such a manual"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "March, 1949." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts under Plan II." / Advisor: Louis Shores, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 39-41).

The purpose of this study is to establish criteria that will be valid for the selection through evaluation of social studies materials for grades one through six in the Alameda Unified School District. The school system feels a need for a rich variety of audio-visual instructional materials for their program so that its teachers might enrich the curriculum of the learner. It is recognized that many varied experiences will increase learning on the part of the student and will help him better to meet life with what he is familiar and has perceived. Kingsley gives the secret of securing and maintaining attention as change, novelty, interest, and meeting a need. It is with this conception that the school system is seeking to develop a list of materials that will become an integral part of the social studies curriculum. Children learn more by seeing than by hearing. The sensory mechanism of the eye is quicker than that of the ear. Morgan states that the child is more susceptible to some stimuli than to others and not because some have more original significance. The United States Navy Department published a Training Aids Manual which indicates that students learn up to 35 per cent more in a given time and remember the facts learned up to 55 per cent longer when teachers use visual material. The Payne Fund Studies have shown that little children attending motion pictures will grasp three out of every five facts that an adult grasps. These children were tested three months from the time they first saw the picture. At the end of this period it was found that they still remembered 90 per cent of what they saw. This points to the conclusive evidence that learning with pictures is not only satisfying to the learner but also makes a lasting impression upon the physical receptors. The visual perceiving of a sound motion picture full of action combined with the sound effects, such as might be found in a film, showing the woodsman cutting the tree and then the terrific crash, is a dynamic way of teaching.

The purpose of this study is to develop an in-service training program for the teachers of the Sherman Elementary Schools in the use of audio-visual aids and materials as a means toward effective child growth and development.

Audio-visual aids can help to cause the student to realize that "government" is an animate, ever-changing thing that affects him in many ways. The purpose of this paper is to suggest ways in which government courses may be given life.

The problem of this study is to determine, if possible, whether any significant difference in achievement existed when the eighth-grade social studies were taught by two methods; namely, the textual method and the textual method supplemented by audio-visual aids.

The problem of this investigation was two fold: first, to obtain information on available auditory and visual aids adaptable to teaching reading on the low-first-grade level; and second, to determine the progress in general reading efficiency of three groups of beginning readers who were taught by three different methods.

This creative project is an approach to assist the Industrial Technology Educators of Indiana in Implementing the Introduction to Construction Technoloay Course. The necessity for high quality instructional materials has set the objectives for a valuable and productive creative project: to research and collect pertinent data from Indiana's state curriculum guides, and recommended texts for the development of transparency masters for the Introduction to Construction Technology Course. The instructional benefits to both prospective and veteran teachers is well worth the effort. / Department of Industry & Technology

The purpose of this creative project is to develop transparency masters for the course, Product and Manufacturing System Design, as outlined in the Indiana Industrial Technology Education Curriculum Guide. Since the curriculum's acceptance, there has been a need for visual instructional material to support the new courses. The author identified this need by assembling a committee to advice his creative project and thus developed instructional media in the form of transparency masters. Now that the transparency masters are developed, instructors in the field of industrial technology education may now benefit by utilizing the materials to help convey the information to their students. / Department of Industry & Technology

For this project the brain-based theory of learning, an eclectic theory that incorporates the cognitive and humanistic views was researched. Multimedia, a technology which supports the principles of brain-based learning, was then selected as the vehicle to present historical materials to students.

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