This study was developed to determine if Florida's four year and upper-division colleges and universities developed seven media competencies in their elementary teacher education methods courses. The curriculum areas studied were social studies, language arts and reading, mathematics, science and special education. The seven media competencies used were: (1) to determine appropriate media to achieve objectives; (2) to produce both print and non-print media; (3) to utilize media in appropriate learning activities; (4) to evaluate the effectiveness of media; (5) to operate current media equipment in each curriculum area; (6) to list sources (producers and publishers) of media curriculum materials; and (7) to develop individualized learning packages. The study had as secondary goals to determine the learning experiences used to develop the seven media competencies, the types of media facilities available to support teacher education programs, and an overall scope of media education. / This study drew upon on Gary Lare's 1974 dissertation Media Education in Elementary Teacher Programs at Selected Teacher-Education Institutions. In his dissertation he developed and validated seven media competencies that should be included in elementary teacher education programs. The instrument used in gathering the data for this study was Lare's questionnaire with minor modifications. / The population surveyed in this study was elementary education methods professors teaching in 26 public and private four year and upper-division colleges and universities in Florida. The institutions surveyed were categorized into small and large institutions. All the small institutions were private colleges and universities and the large institutions were all public supported, with exception of one. / The data were gathered by writing the Chairpersons of the Education Departments in all 26 institutions in Florida for names of methods professors in each curriculum area to be studied. A questionnaire was sent to each professor named by the chairperson. Sixty-six percent of the methods professors returned the questionnaire. / The conclusions for this study were: (1) The elementary teacher education methods professors surveyed were not developing all of the seven media competencies to the same degree. The majority of the methods professors developed the first three competencies {(1) 68%, (2) 80%, (3) 78%} while the last four {(4) 47%, (5) 44%, (6) 44%, and (7) 51%} were developed less often. (2) Methods courses were the major learning experience used by methods professors in both large and small institutions to develop the media competencies. It was also found that the majority of professors in large institutions developed the media competencies through field experiences, student developed lessons during a methods class and during student teaching. In small institutions the competencies were developed through student developed lessons during a methods class and student teaching. (3) Large institutions (96%) provided better instructional material center facilities with a wide variety of instructional materials for their elementary teacher education majors than small institutions (61%). (4) More large institutions (94%) provided a material production facility for their elementary education majors to produce media materials than small institutions (48%). (5) Very few large or small institutions' elementary teacher education programs required their majors to take as part of their program, a general media course (25%), a course that contained part general media subject matter (32%) or some other arrangement other than a course to develop these skills (24%). / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 41-05, Section: A, page: 1902. / Thesis (Educat.D.)--The Florida State University, 1980.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74186 |
| Contributors | DULL, DANIEL FRANCIS., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 138 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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