The writer studied Audiovisual education from the point of view information theory. First, the reaction of primary school pupils at the time of viewing was researched by utilizing the program analyzer (paper-analyzer) method, and the values of their Y...
The writer studied Audiovisual education from the point of view information theory. First, the reaction of primary school pupils at the time of viewing was researched by utilizing the program analyzer (paper-analyzer) method, and the values of their Y.N. reaction were recorded. Then the results were plotted on trilinear co-ordinates.
The above research shows that these results are useful in deciding whether pre-and-follow-up-study for TV programs in TV learning is necessary or not. These results however, are different according to classes of the content of different programs.
It is also shown that when the value of the M-reaction (between the values of the Y and N reaction) begins to decline after having risen to a maximum, in most of the cases, the value of the Y-reaction rises, while the value of the N-reaction rarely rises.
This fact considered from the point of view of the information theory, the value of entropy for information was calculated. From this result it is understood that when the value rises to a maximum, eagerness as the strong motivation for learning of the pupils is the highest. When the value descends, while the value of the Y-reaction rises, this phenomena can be explained by saying that the effect of learning has risen, and that the integrate value of entropy by the axis of time may have a meaning as the mass of learning.
In this treatise, as shown above, the writer studied the value of the Y-N reaction of the pupils at the time of their TV learning. Then utilizing trilinear co-ordinates and the value of entropy in the information theory, the writer considered the results to be one of the methods in deciding the necessity of pre-and -follow-up-study for TV programs, and considered eagerness as the strong motivation for learning and the effect of learning on the pupils.
Hereafter, further examination concerning results similar to these will be done with various examples.