| Sumario: | This article presents an experiment to study the role of television in providing education to college students. College Composition at Washington Square College is a two-semester, six-point course in English fundamentals. The basic objectives of the course are the teaching of the principles of writing, reading and thinking. All daytime College Composition students participated in the experiment. The experiment was undertaken with a view to determining, under the conditions outlined above and with the use of such audio- visual aids as television makes practicable, how effectively a course in English fundamentals can be taught using closed-circuit television in contrast to the conventional method of teaching the course. In both television and control classes and for both semesters, students learned the subject-matter of English fundamentals with about equal effectiveness. During the first semester, students in control classes on all initial-knowledge levels improved their test scores more than did students in television classes; however, the differences were not statistically significant.
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