This research project investigated the effects of teaching units in the family-living subject areas as prepared by adult basic education students utilizing the television media as a method of instruction. The objectives of the study were: (1) to ascertain whether or not student-prepared videotape media are effective in instructing ABE students in the family-living areas; and (2) to determine if student-prepared videotape units act as reinforcements to student motivation. Other activities included in the research were: (1) the training of 12 adult-basic-education teachers and 30 adult basic education students in the operation of television equipment and in the production of videotape teaching units; (2) the development of a procedure for statewide implementation in which both students and teachers can prepare videotape lessons of instruction for all levels and on all subject areas in adult basic education; and (3) the development of a performance criteria by which objectives (1) and (2) were evaluated and reported. (Author/DB)