Benefits of Interactive Video Technology in Schools

Iuppa (1984) defined interactive video as any video system in which the sequence and selection of messages is determined by the user's response to the material presented. Perlmutter (1991) has put it this way:

In interactive video, the user's actions, choices, and decisions genuinely affect the way the program unfolds. (p.180)

Advocates of interactive video technology make claims of instructional efficacy for such diverse education and education-related areas as physics (Kruse, 1989), military training (Floyd & Floyd, 1982), medical training (Hon, 1983), and school classrooms (Hansen, 1989; Branch, Ledford, Robertson & Robison, 1987). Moreover, claims of diverse benefits are made for the technology.

Benefits associated with interactive video technology are said to include: increased interaction, individualization, cost effectiveness, increased student motivation, increased levels of immediate feedback during instruction, ease of re

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rature indicates that of the two response formats, decisions may be more accurate if arrived at by group consensus than if made on an individual basis; this because in several social psychology and occupational psychology studies of group and individual decision-making, groups performed superior to individuals (For a review of these studies, see Sears, Freedman & Peplau, 1985 and Feldman & Arnold, 1989). However, the group versus individual decision effect is only present when a host of contributing factors are controlled (Tedeschi, Lindskold & Rosenfeld, 1985; Feldman & Arnold, 1989). Contributing factors include group size, the degree to which views that differ from those of the majority of group members are allowed a voice, the heterogeneity of group members, and whether maximally competent decision-makers are in maximal positions of group influence. In the proposed study, time and financial constraints do not allow for the procedures necessary to control for all contributing factors. Therefore, it cannot be definitely stated as to whether decisions will be more accurate under the individual or group consensus conditions. Purpose of the Study The purpose of this study is to examine whether, for an interactive video lesson o
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