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Norton, Priscilla; Resta, Virginia – Educational Technology, 1986
This study investigated the impact of integrated learning systems, problem solving software, and simulation software on elementary students' reading performance. Results indicate students entering fourth through sixth grade profited more from instruction supplemented by problem-solving and simulation software than from skills instruction. Results…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analysis of Covariance, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation
Norton, Priscilla – Educational Technology, 1992
Discussion of technological innovations in education focuses on the potentials of the microcomputer as a classroom instructional method. Programing, computer literacy, software applications, and problem solving are suggested as ways to incorporate computers into the curriculum, and examples of applications of computers in elementary and secondary…
Descriptors: Appropriate Technology, Class Activities, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy
Norton, Priscilla; Heiman, Brenda – Educational Technology, 1988
Describes study that examined the effects of computer use in the literacy program for communication disordered elementary school students, and determined which literacy effects could be attributed to problem-solving software and which to word processing software. Treatments for the experimental and control groups are described, and results are…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Communication Disorders, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy
