With the growing advancements in technology and their highly influential role in teaching and learning, present day teachers find themselves grappling with a whole set of parameters against which they need to measure themselves constantly. One cannot be a proficient teacher in the true sense of the word if he or she is merely good at classroom…

A system of computer assisted design for instructional materials (CADI) would increase the productivity of instructional designers of software, and keep costs from escalating as rapidly as they are at present. At Wayne State University, some steps toward CADI have been taken, with the result that personnel time has been reduced for some…

This supplementary text material is meant to suggest ways in which the computer can increase students' intuitive understanding of fields and waves. The first way allows the student to produce a number of examples of the physics discussed in the text. For example, more complicated field and potential maps, or intensity patterns, can be drawn from…

How Rhode Island Junior College, the members of the Department of Computer Resources and the Department of Innovative Learning Services have been working together over the last several years to develop instructional support services as aids to education. (Author)

Describes the use of a desk-top computer as an aid to analyze strobe photographs. Applications are illustrated for collision of pucks and the motion of a ball on a rubber band. (DS)

Describes a model concerned with generating instructional material in support of undergraduate uses of computers and with exploring the various incentives available for authors and publishers to become involved in this activity. (Author)

This report discusses the development and implementation of computer-related teaching materials for undergraduate physics courses. A list of the computer dialogs developed, with a short description of each, is included. The types of dialog are: (1) development of an interactive proof, (2) assistance in problem solving, (3) diagnosing and filling…

This paper presents some of the preliminary results of Project COEXIST at Dartmouth College, an NSF sponsored project to investigate ways to use computers in introductory physics and mathematics teaching. Students use the computer in a number of ways on homework, on individual projects, and in the laboratory. Students write their own programs,…

The educational problems of the United States have reached critical proportions, particularly if the nation is to maintain leadership in high technology industries. This document explores the promise technology offers for improving instruction and broadening alternatives for instructional delivery. The author considers how technologically assisted…

This document outlines the operation of the Monte Carlo Integration Computer (MCIC), which is capable of simulating several types of chemical processes. Some data obtained through the MCIC simulation of physical processes are presented in graphs. After giving reasons for not using the initially contemplated summative research procedures for…

Reports a student-computer dialog for beginning or intermediate physics classes. This dialog enables the student to take some initiative in showing that energy conservation in one dimension is a consequence of the laws of motion. (DS)

With only a very basic knowledge of microcomputers, the language teacher can readily build on student interest in this learning mode. The teacher remains in control of what is to be learned and is still involved in deciding how the student will approach the material. Programming is not something the teacher has to know, but it is helpful to have a…

An overview of recent developments in the theory of observers is presented, together with a simple design method that casts the problem in the form of a full order observer. Examples of observer performance are presented which are representative and suitable as demonstrations on small analog or hybrid computers. (Author/MH)