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Brothen, Thomas | 1 |
Grabe, Mark | 1 |
Graham, Robert B. | 1 |
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Tromater, L. James | 1 |
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Tromater, L. James – Teaching of Psychology, 1985
Described and evaluated is a course structured around SPSS (the Statistical Packages for Social Sciences) that helps psychology students review what they have learned in an introductory statistics course and apply these quantitative skills to other courses. Student evaluation showed that course objectives were met. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Course Descriptions, Course Evaluation, Higher Education

Brothen, Thomas – Teaching of Psychology, 1984
The three computer-assisted instruction packages met the goals set for them. They fit the course objective of giving students more experience dealing with the experimental method; they added a new dimension to the learning resources available to students; and they integrated computer and written work. (RM)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Course Descriptions, Course Evaluation, Higher Education

Pettijohn, Terry F. – Teaching of Psychology, 1985
The author describes how he developed a computer-assisted tutoring and testing program for his general psychology course using PILOT on the IBM personal computer. (RM)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Program Development

Grabe, Mark; And Others – Teaching of Psychology, 1984
A computerized study system that is being used in an introductory psychology course is described. A total of 2,000 multiple-choice test items have been catalogued by chapter and page number and stored on hard disk. The student selects the chapter to be reviewed and is given randomly selected test items. (RM)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Independent Study

Atnip, Gilbert W. – Teaching of Psychology, 1985
Described is a college course on the use of computers in psychology that included an introduction to computers, computing, word processing, data analysis, data acquisition, artificial intelligence, computer assisted instruction, simulation, and modeling. Students conducted independent research projects using the computer. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers, Course Descriptions

Graham, Robert B. – Teaching of Psychology, 1994
Describes a computer tutorial program that teaches the fundamentals of discrimination learning in a college-level psychology course. Asserts that neither homework nor study guides provides the help that the tutorial program does for weaker students. Includes information about obtaining a free copy of the tutorial program. (CFR)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Course Content