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November, 1945 Page 3<3 MAKE TOUB OWH TYPEWRITER SLIDES Far S«rMfi PraJMtivn USE RADIO MATS on sal« by Theatre Supply Dealer* Write for Free Sample RADIO-MAT SLIDE CO.. Inc. 222 Oakrid« BlT4..DarteiuB«ack,na. Experimental Research in Audio-Visual Education {Continued from page 348) ideas listed were scored as irrelevant. The average number of separate ideas, of relevant ideas, and of irrelevant ideas, per child was calculated for each level of Group I, II, and III. Pupils from ten rural schools in Jackson County, Kentucky, were selected as subjects in this study because they were com- parable in background, experience, and education to the child- ren in the counties in which the Sloan Experiment in Ap- plied Economics is being carried on. Intelligence tests and achievement tests were administered to 498 pupils in Jack- son County. Pupils over thirteen years of age were eliminated from the study because it was felt that the materials were too easy for them. Three groups of pupils, equated on the basis of reading age, were made up to correspond to the levels of dif- ficulty of the reading materials. There were seventy-eight sub- jects in each of the three main groups. Small differences occurred in the number of children in each of the A, B, and C reading levels. This fact made it necessary, in treating the results, to use the average in making some of the compari- sons. The investigator had prepared suitable record sheets for each child. All the children in the study were shown pictures and were asked to tell about them in a "warming up" procedure prior to actual testing. Children in Group I were given a story with pictures. They read the story aloud and told all that they could remember. Children in Group II reported on the illustrations alone. Re- sponses of all children were recorded verbatim. Conclusions The results of this study indicate that children get more relevant ideas from reading a story with pictures than from reading the story alone or from the pictures alone. This con- clusion is true regardless of the fact that in presenting the story and pictures, the investigator did not instruct the child- ren to look at the pictures or to report on what they saw in the pictures. The superiority of the story with pictures over the story alone seems to increase with an increase in the relevancy of the pictures. To the extent that memory for ideas is a measure of comprehension, to that extent pictures contribute to the comprehension of reading material. In two of the three groups of this study the children got more separate ideas from the pictures alone than from read- ing a story with pictures, and in each group they got more ideas, from the pictures alone than from the reading matter alone. The majority of the ideas reported from pictures alone, however, were irrelevant to the story or to the ideas intended in the pictures. The degree of irrelevancy varied from pic- ture to picture, indicating that it may be possible to select pic- tures with a high degree of relevancy to the story. From the standpoint of stimulating and arousing a variety of ideas, pictures are superior to reading matter alone or to reading matter with pictures; but from the standpoint of getting ideas which are directed toward some specific goal, pictures alone are inferior to reading matter, with or without pictures. The conclusion does not stop here, however. The results of this study show that when the stimulating effect of pictures is directed by reading matter, there are more relevant ideas. 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