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Fisher, Charles W. – 1988
This study examines the relationship between high computer access and "student empowerment" at the Nashville, Tennessee, site of the Apple Classroom of Tomorrow (ACOT) project. The study rests on the premise that school learning is a function of the work carried out by students in school, and that schoolwork is experienced by students as…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Computer Literacy, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades
Ploeger, Floyd D. – 1983
This in-depth review of the literature synthesizes articles and abstracts identified as education-oriented microcomputer research studies published since 1979. A brief, historic overview of educational computing is followed by a review of the Becker (1983) survey, which concerned the distribution of microcomputers in education in the United…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Intermode Differences, Learning Processes
Berghel, Hal – Collegiate Microcomputer, 1986
Summarizes results of a University of Nebraska study on effects of different teaching methods on student performance in a computer literacy course for business administration students. Merits and weaknesses of the large class approach--the more successful method--are discussed, and academic achievement as a function of gender is analyzed. (MBR)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Business Administration Education, Comparative Analysis, Computer Literacy

White, Charles S. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1987
Conducted to determine whether use of computerized file-management programs can enhance the development of information processing skills, this two-treatment experiment found that seventh through twelfth grade students in the computer-using/structured activities group received significantly higher mean scores than the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy
Wesley, Beth Eddinger; And Others – Journal of Computer-Based Instruction, 1985
Describes a study to determine effects of computer-assisted instruction (versus a text mode of programed instruction) and locus of control on preservice elementary teachers' computer literacy achievement. Differences in test scores of externally controlled individuals favored CAI. There were no differences between treatments when internally…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Computer Literacy, Curriculum Design, Elementary School Teachers