A summarization of media research inadequacies remains a standard feature of media literature reviews. A Gestalt solution would be a research model, applicable to field studies in educational institutions, which accounts for the total instructional setting. It appears that an appropriate research model must be directly related to the psychological, sociological, and physiological attributes of the learner, the teacher, the task, and the resources, which collectively result in an instructional environment. The objective form (physiological) and subjective meaning (sociological) of any learning task must yield a functional distinctiveness (psychological) in terms of the sensory information to be extracted by the learner. (Author)