Accounting Achievement in Conventional and Television Classes at the University of Miami.

Abstract The article focuses on accounting achievement in conventional and television classes at the university of Miami. Colleges and universities of the U.S. are confronted today with unprecedented expansion problems. Television instruction may provide answers to some of these problems. To meet demands placed upon them for instructors and for physical facilities to accommodate expanding student enrollments, educators throughout the country are experimenting with mass communication techniques such as radio, tape recordings and television. To determine potentialities, advantages and limitations of instructional television, colleges and universities are conducting experimental courses in television in many areas of higher education. The purpose of the study was to compare the achievement of students studying accounting by the television method at the University of Miami with the achievement of students studying by the conventional method of instruction. It was also the purpose of the study to ascertain opinions of the faculty and students concerning the program on instructional television for freshman accounting courses at the University of Miami.