This study determined whether the quantity and quality of instructional television (ITV) use and attitudes toward ITV varies between teachers served by a centralized ITV delivery system or by a decentralized system. It determined the degree to which teachers' attitudes toward the use of ITV are related to their perceptions that the available ITV delivery system possesses the attributes of innovations proposed by Rogers and Shoemaker. / Centralized system users were teachers receiving ITV programming from a broadcast or district-wide closed-circuit television facility. Decentralized users were teachers utilizing videotape copies of ITV programs in their classrooms. / Quantity and quality of ITV use, attitudes toward ITV and perceptions of the attributes of the available ITV delivery system were measured by a specially designed instrument, the Comprehensive ITV Survey Instrument (CISI). The CISI was administered to 244 teachers at 53 elementary schools in ten Florida counties. Interviews were conducted to confirm CISI responses. / T-tests between the CISI responses on the quality and attitude scale measures revealed no significant differences between the two ITV delivery systems. Centralized system use was found to be significantly higher in quantity than the decentralized system use. / Pearson product-moment correlations revealed that there was a significant relationship between four of the five attributes of innovations and quantity, quality and attitude scores. The relationships were in the directions predicted by Rogers and Shoemaker, however, most of the correlations were low (-.0048 to .29) accounting for less than 11% of the variance. / There was no apparent advantage to the use of either delivery system in terms of quality of ITV use or attitudes toward ITV. Despite the statistically significant difference in quantity of ITV use, the actual differences were too small to be of practical significance. / Utilizing Rogers' and Shoemaker's attributes was not documented to be a strong predictor of teachers' use of or attitudes toward ITV. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-10, Section: A, page: 4259. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74665 |
| Contributors | WEINSTEIN, STUART HARRIS., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 152 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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