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Grimes, Lynn – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1981
Procedures for programing computers to deal with handicapped students, problems in selective attention, visual discrimination, reaction time differences, short term memory, transfer and generalization, recognition of mistakes, and social skills are discussed. (CL)
Descriptors: Attention, Computer Assisted Instruction, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
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Owens, John E. – Mathematics Teacher, 1992
Explores families of parabolas that result from the graphs of quadratic functions. Computer software allows students to quickly depict a series of graphs and make conjectures about emerging patterns. Discusses cases in different parameters in the quadratic are varied to produce different effects in which the parabolas. (MDH)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Discovery Learning, Discovery Processes
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Graham, Robert B. – Teaching of Psychology, 1998
Describes a computer tutorial that teaches the fundamentals of stimulus generalization in operant learning. Concepts covered include reinforcement, discrimination learning, stimulus continua, generalization, generalization gradients, and peak shift. The tutorial also reviews applications in human and animal situations. The content is appropriate…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Cognitive Psychology, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education