Assessing Instructional Strategies and Resulting Student Attitudes regarding Two-Way Television Instruction

Abstract

This inquiry was conducted to examine the potential of two-way television as an instructional medium. Classroom observation data were collected from thirty-two presentations by seven medical faculty. Half of the observed presentations were from two-way television mediated lessons, while the remaining observations were made in a conventional professor-in-front-of-class mode. Comparisons of observation data from these two presentation modes revealed similar instructional strategies by the professors regardless of the presentation mode. An additional analysis revealed attitudes of students were mixed regarding instruction provided via two-way television.