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The Technological
Development Project (TDP) was conducted under the aegis of the National
Education Association (NEA), although it was staffed with DAVI people,
and its reports were ultimately published and distributed by DAVI. The
contract¹ began in 1961. James D. Finn of the University
of Southern California (USC) served as principal investigator; he remained
in Los Angeles while the office and staff were in the NEA building in
Washington.
Finn drew in talented younger members, such as Lee Campion, Donald Perrin,
and Donald Ely to work on a wide range of studies of the status of the
traditional and emerging technologies in the schools. Campion headed
the Washington office for a time before departing for a position with
the state education department in New York, at which time Ely took over
management of the Washington operations. Ely also worked on a sub-contract
to the Commission on Definition and Terminology. The Commission’s
work done for the TDP project was coordinated with the definition project
that culminated in the major definitional work issued by DAVI in 1963, The Changing Role of the Audiovisual Process in Education: A Definition
and Glossary of Related Terms.
The contract called for a very ambitious program of study and reporting
on issues ranging from the uses of AV in the schools from 1930-1960
to the future of the computer in education. The staff was hard pressed
to deliver within the original one-year contract period, which was extended
to February 1963.
The publication of the TDP reports was subsidized by the NEA, but DAVI
served as the printing and distribution source, as determined after
lengthy negotiations with the U.S. Office of Education. Eventually,
DAVI produced four monographs as special supplements of AVCR
plus four other documents published as TDP reports.
AVCR Supplements:
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The
Changing Role of the Audiovisual Process in Education: A Definition
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Glossary
of Related Terms. Ely, Donald P. (Ed.). 1963. |
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Perception
Theory and AV Education. Norberg,
Kenneth (Ed.). 1962 |
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Learning
Theory and AV Utilization. Meierhenry, Wesley C. 1961. |
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The
Role of the Computer in Future Instructional Systems. Bushnell,
Donald D. |
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1963. |
TDP
Publications:
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The
Design of Instructional Equipment: Two Views. Leverenz, Humboldt
W. and |
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Townsley,
Malcolm G. Occasional Paper No. 8. NEA Technological Development
Project, 1963. |
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The
Revolution in the Textbook Publishing Industry. Redding, N.
Frank. |
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Occasional
Paper No. 9. NEA Technological Development Project, 1963. |
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Studies
in the Growth of Instructional Technology, 1: Audiovisual |
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Instrumentation
for Instruction in the Public Schools, 1930-1960. Finn, James
D., Perrin, Don, and Campion, Lee E. Occasional Paper No. 6. NEA
Technological Development Project, 1963 |
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Studies
in the Growth of Instructional Technology, II: A Directory of Closed- |
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Circuit
Television Installations in American Education with a pattern of
Growth. Campion, Lee E. and Kelley, Clarice Y. Occasional Paper
No. 10. NEA Technological Development Project, 1963 |
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1.
The project was under contract No. SAE-9073 with the United States Office
of Education, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, as authorized
under Title VII, Part B, of the National Defense Education Act of 1958.
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