Random Selection and Branching in the Motion-Picture Audio-Visual Field
Leon W. Wells · Journal of the SMPTE · 1970
In the development of new audio-visual equipment, design engineers must take the educator in as a partner. Concepts of education must be expanded beyond the traditional “25 students per teacher” and the advanced techniques for the testing and scoring of students. Current philosophies intended to satisfy the individual needs of the gifted, normal and slow student are discussed, including Skinner's “straight-line programing”; Crowder's “branching method”; “single-concept method”; and the “selectivity,” “dial-access,” and “instantaneous review” disciplines. The Panacolor and multi-row film format systems are found to be well suited to most of these modern educational philosophies.