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INTELLIGIBILITY OF SCHOOLS TELEVISION PROGRAMMES
Author(s) -
ROYDS ALBERT
Publication year - 1962
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1962.tb01751.x
Subject(s) - psychology , intelligibility (philosophy) , subject matter , mathematics education , set (abstract data type) , pedagogy , linguistics , computer science , epistemology , philosophy , curriculum , programming language
S ummary . Having viewed television lessons in elementary science, pupils did free‐writing exercises in which they set down what they considered the lessons had been about. Using word‐counts as a measure of verbal intelligibility, it was found that the programmes were intelligible to the viewers, because the language standards of the lessons approximated to their own language standards. Using teachers' estimates of the teaching importance and the teaching function of the contents of the lessons, it was found that the lessons were intelligible for subject matter also. This was indicated by the qualities of the statements recalled and set down, in the pupils' exercises.