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Research Review
Students' Attitude Favorable
Toward Televised Instruction
By ELLEN BRADLEY
Over three-fourths of the stu
dents polled on the acceptability
of televised instruction reported
favorably.
The majority checked either
"very good" or "fairly good."
THE UNIVERSITY began re
search into the effectiveness, ac
ceptability, appropriateness and
feasibility of televised instruc
tion in 1954. This research is being
conducted by Leslie P. Greenhill,
associate director of academic
research and services, and Clar
ence R. Carpenter, director of
academic research and services.
The University is attempting to
use television to cope with the
mounting enrollment of students
and to raise the standard of in-
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Scholarship applications for
undergraduate study in Europe
during the academic year 1963-
1964 will be accepted by the In
stitute of European Studies until
Feb. 15.
Seven scholarships are being
offered for study at the insti
tute's centers in Vienna, Paris,
and Freiburg, West Germany. In
cluded are three full scholarships
which cover all basic costs such
as tuition, meals and transporta
tion from the United States.
The programs in Vienna and
Paris are open to college sopho
mores and juniors, while the Frei
burg program is limited to jun
lore.
Scholarships will be granted on
the basis of academic achieve
ment, financial need and recom
mendation by the applicant's
'home" college or university. Ap
plicants must be 18 to 24 ,years
old and single.
"Each program includes formal
classes, lectures, seminars and
field-study and is designed to
fulfill usual course requirements,"
officials of the institute said.
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Aruction by expanding the in
fluence of its best professors,
Greenhill said. Television also
makes it possible for professors to
present demonstrations and other
teaching materials that would
be impossible or impractical to
use under normal classroom con
ditions, he explained.
Successive surveys of faculty
members not teaching over tele
vision at the University have
shown that a. small group is neg
ative toward television, another
small group is willing to try tele
vision if it should become a neces
sity and a large group is neutral,
Greenhill said.
"It would appear that -students
are quicker to accept innovations
in teaching than are most faculty
members," Greenhill said.
Forms and descriptive litera
ture are available from the Insti
tute of European Studies, 35 E.
Wacker Dr., Chicago 1, 111. Schol
arships will he announced about
May 1, 19G3.
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A questionnaire was given to
3,000 students in eight television
courses. In answer to the question,
"What do you think about tele
vision as a means of handling
courses with large enrollments?",
78 per cent checked either "very
good" or "fairly good," and 22
per cent checked either "fairly
bad" or "very bad." "
The chief objections to the use
of television relate to the inability
of students to ask questions and
the "impersonality" of television
teaching, Greenhill said.
TO COUNTER these objections, -
the "pyramid" plan has been in
troduced, whereby students . are
organized into study-discussion
groups with 10 - to 12 students to
a group, he explained. The groups
are pyramidal in structure.
The base is composed of eight
or nine students from the partic
ular course who would most prob
ably be freshmen and sophomores.
To this group would be added two
juniors and one senior who are,
majors in the field and who are
chosen on the basis of scholar
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Subcommittee Disciplines
103 Men in Fall Term
By STEVE CIMMLA
A total of
. 103 men, five less
than during the fall term 1961,
were involved in disciplinary
cases during the past term, Daniel
R. Leasure, assistant dean of men,
said recently.
An analysis of the individual
residence areas show that 29 resi
dents of Nittany area were in
volved in disciplinary cases, the
highest total among the five men's
living areas, Leasure said.- Seven
teen students from Pollock area
involved in disciplinary cases
constituted the second highest
total, he added.
_ THE COLLEGE of Liberal Arts
and the College of Engineering
a nd Architecture, each with 24
cases, had the most enrollees dis
.ciplined by the Senate Subcom
mittee on 'Discipline and by the
tribunals, Leasure said.
He said 17 students in the Col
lege of Business Administration
received disciplinary action, the
second highest figure among the
various colleges.
In a report released this week,
Leasure said the single most
abused disciplinary category was
general misbehavior, since 33
men were involved in cases of
this classification.
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Violations of regulations con
cerning drinking and possession
of alcoholic beverages sent the
second largest number of men, 24,
to the University's chief disci
plinary agencies, the student tri
bunals and the Senate Subcom
mittee-on Discipline, he said.
THE SIX tribunals, one for
each residence area and 'one for
students living off campus - ,- are
seven-Man student - boards which
hear disciplinary cases within
their areas of jurisdiction. They
then render a decision concern
ing each ease to the office of the
Dean of -Men or to the Senate
Subcommittee on Discipline for
final approval.
If these officials do not approve
the decisions, the cases are re
manded to the discipline sub
committee for a final decision.
Last term these officials ap
proved 33 of the tribunals' 43
recommendations and slightly
modified the rest.
Other cases are heard by the
senate discipline subcommittee,
which last term heard-22 cases in
volving 35 men, Leasure said.
Penalties most frequently as
sessed to these Offenders were
office and disciplinary probation,
he said, adding that 26 men re
ceived each penalty last term..
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