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IN 1953 THE SENIOR AUTHOR and his colleagues conducted a comparative study between TV and conventional teaching in the area of military basic training (5). Three relevant facets of this study were the use of kinescopes for review purposes, the use of television to teach light machine gun disassembly, and the finding that low aptitude trainees learned more from television than their counterparts did from conventional instruction. The decade which followed saw the further development of television for teaching manual skills-typing, radio repair-but little further use, for example, as a review device; and the implications of the finding concerning aptitude and television saw little subsequent pursuit by other investigators. One difficulty was an inability to reproduce the finding especially with college populations.' Subsequent efforts in the Army's TV research program were directed toward other problems and areas of instruction (6, 7). It was not until 1961 that attention was again focused upon basic training as a consequence of the President's mobilization order in response to the Berlin crisis. The increase in numbers of trainees with the requirement for more instructors and the need to main |
