Current issues in educational communications and technology are addressed in this collection of 51 papers, which are mainly research reports. The first five papers were prepared for a symposium on the status of research in instructional technology, an introduction and four discussions of divergent points of view in the current controversy over the instructional effectiveness of media. Other topics addressed by the remaining papers include research methodology, software evaluation, intelligent computer-based education systems, effects of media on learning in science and reading, interactive videodisks, instructional television, aptitude treatment interaction, instructional design and development, schema theory, locus of control, cueing and other orienting activities, problem solving, distance education, and teacher attitudes and computer equity. The names and addresses of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology Research and Theory Division officers, directors, and review board are provided, as well as cumulative author and descriptor indexes for the 1985, 1986, and 1987 editions of the proceedings. (MES)