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Peer reviewedMacArthur, Charles A.; Malouf, David B. – Preventing School Failure, 1990
The study attempts to identify critical issues in the implementation of microcomputers in special education through an indepth description of microcomputer use with mildly handicapped students in one school district. Few teachers had yet developed a stable pattern of computer use. Problems of access, training, and curriculum integration were…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development, Microcomputers
Peer reviewedSchwartz, Shirley S.; MacArthur, Charles A. – Preventing School Failure, 1990
This paper provides an overview of the Computers and Writing Instruction Project, a field-tested curriculum for teaching writing to learning-disabled students consisting of a process approach, word processing, and strategy instruction. Its scope and sequence are described and guidelines for establishing a writer's workshop in the classroom…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedMacArthur, Charles A. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1999
Two studies compared handwriting, word processing, and word prediction with speech-synthesis software (PR) with three intermediate-grade students with severe spelling problems. Results suggested that PR software can improve the writing of such students under certain circumstances but that constraints, such as the difficulty of using the software,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Uses in Education, Handwriting
Peer reviewedMacArthur, Charles A. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1999
Reviews specific ways in which computers can support the basic transcription processes involved in writing, focusing on computer applications that go beyond word processing, including spelling and grammar checkers, speech synthesis, word prediction, and speech recognition. Focuses only on writing mechanics, and clarifies the extent to which…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedMacArthur, Charles A.; Malouf, David B. – Journal of Special Education, 1991
Case studies of four elementary-school special education teachers who used computers were conducted to describe their beliefs and knowledge about computers, their planning and decision-making processes, and patterns of computer use in the classroom. Subjects mostly adapted computers to fit previous educational goals and routines. (Author/PB)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education
Peer reviewedMacArthur, Charles A. – Exceptional Children, 1988
The paper discusses: features of word processors and their impact on the writing process and the social context for writing; research on word processors in schools and the potential instructional role of extensions to word processors, such as spelling and style checkers, synthesized speech output, computer networks, and interactive prompting…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education
