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The effects of student location and teacher role on learning from ITV

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Earlier research found a relationship between the location of a student or viewer with respect to a motion picture or television screen and his learning from or performance with respect to ma terial presented thereon. This relationship has most often been attributed to visual acuity factors. The present study was designed to test the hypothesis that social psychological factors account for part or all of the relationship under certain condi tions. The hypothesis was supported by the findings.

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The writer gratefully acknowledges the counsel of Dr. Edwin Parker of Stanford University, who was the principal adviser for the dissertation from which this report was drawn, and the assistance of the Santa Clara County (California) Office of Education, whose Internship in the Newer Instructional Media was held by the author while he conducted the experiment reported here.

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Mayers, A.E. The effects of student location and teacher role on learning from ITV. AVCR 15, 169–179 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02768595

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