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Dale, Evelyn J. – 1984
A 10-week project conducted with 12 gifted 4th and 5th grade students (10 boys and 2 girls) examined the effectiveness of the Logo computer programming language as a tool for helping students understand some basic principles of physics. Three assumptions were tested: (1) motivated elementary school students can learn both turtle graphics and word…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Elementary Education
Law, Nancy – 1988
Knowledge elicitation through programming was studied to determine students' intuitive ideas about motion. The subjects, 17-year-old sixth-form science students and 14-year-old third-form students, were asked to write expert systems programs about motion; and their interactions with their own knowledge were observed. The 17-year-old students had…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Expert Systems, Foreign Countries, High School Students
Peer reviewedAdams, Stephen T.; Disessa, Andrea A. – Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 1991
This study described ways that sixth grade students invented strategies for working out difficult physics problems while using a motion program in the computer environment "Boxer." Strategies became a communal classroom resource and ground rules for their use were negotiated with the teacher. (MDH)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Computers
