Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) is discussed briefly as it might apply to agricultural education in order to supplement both text and teacher. CAI format is shown in a typical tutorial program used to help students understand basic concepts of work, power, horsepower, and torque. The author points out other instructional uses of CAI, such as…

A summary of the current features of the New BASIC System (NBS) as used by Project Solo is presented. A program is given which provides drill-and-practice routine where the random generator output is biased to favor selection of problems on which the student needs most practice. The program shows the use of NBS string functions to find a numerical…

A Project Solo module which explores set theory is presented. The module allows students to define three sets by listing their elements. The student is then required to list the elements of a new set using the elements in two or more of the previous sets. The program analyzes the student's answers and tells him what, if anything, is wrong. A new…

Two compilers which allow students to use standard instead of computer notation have been written in BASIC for use on a minicomputer. (JY)

Described is LEARNIT, a computer program (written in microsoft BASIC) designed to aid memorization by deleting letters from a passage to be memorized. Recall is cued by the letters left on the screen. (KC)

Fill in tests (FIT) are composed and printed by the computer; the tests are machine scorable as well. Two-digit code numbers are assigned to words and numbers in a vocabulary or answers. FIT also permits the use of questions which demand student-constructed responses. FIT is a recognition test, but given a sufficient vocabulary list, it can become…

This is a report on a system devised so that an author may easily write his course in English on course planning forms and then a pre-processor will generate the coding which will be input for the machine assembler." (Editor)

The Lip-Reader Trainer, an experimental software package, converts typed sentences into animated mouth movements to help train hearing impaired persons in lipreading. The package was designed to produce correct mouth configurations and still be easy to use. Modifications include additional hardware to produce voice output and development of…

The presentation describes PILOT (Programmed Inquiry, Learning or Teaching), a special programing language easy for beginners to learn and available for several brands of microcomputers. PILOT is explained to contain substantially fewer commands than most other languages and to be written in an easy to understand manner. Edit commands and their…

Described a computer program and how it might help solve problems in the humanities. (RK)

This BASIC computer program designed to help music theory students practice harmonic dictation generates examples for students to use in a drill and practice approach in developing aural skills. To facilitate the implementation of effective generative algorithms, the author has used a non-linear analytical technique similar to the chord symbol…

An instructional monitor is a program which tries to detect, diagnose, and possibly help overcome a student's learning difficulties in the course of solving a problem or performing a task. In one approach to building an instructional monitor, the student uses a special task- or problem-oriented language expressly designed around some particular…