The objective of this study is to make clear the viewpoints for evaluation of learner's images induced by watching science TV program, and of their activities on enrichment learning induced by watching that program, in order to search for possibility and limitation of direct teaching through TV program. In this study, subjects were ten boys of 5th-grade in elementary school, who had learned through science TV programs for one consecutive year. Each subject in treatment conditions watched a science TV program. After that, in the field of enrichment learning, they expressed their own images induced by the content of that program and engaged in the activities of problem solving by their ideas on the images. Their whole activities were observed and recorded by the VTR. Their images and activities were analyzed in this study. The main results were as follows. (1) The learner's activities were based on their images induced by the content of the TV program. (2) Two viewpoints are obtained for evaluation of the learner's images induced by watching TV program. One is relation between the images and the content of the program, and the other is enlargement of the images as their enrichment activities. (3) Moreover, two viewpoints are obtained for evaluation of the learner's activities on enrichment learning. One is whether the activities are done as the process of problem solving, and the other is continuation of the activities.
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