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Animating Recursion as an Aid to Instruction.
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Wilcocks, Derek; Sanders, Ian – Computers & Education, 1994
Discussion of how to teach programming skills to novice programmers focuses on the use of a program animator that uses a copies model of recursion to teach the recursive function. Various mental models are reviewed; testing the recursion animator is described; and possibilities for further research are suggested. (12 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Science Education, Courseware
Visual Aspects of Courseware Engineering.
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Lanzing, J. W. A.; Stanchev, I. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 1994
Discusses the possibilities for improving courseware and the courseware engineering process using visualization. Advantages and disadvantages of visualization are considered, including psychological, instructional, motivational, cross-cultural, and technical aspects; visual programming systems are described; adaptation and rapid prototyping are…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programming), Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Development, Courseware
MultiLogo: A Study of Children and Concurrent Programming.
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Resnick, Mitchel – Interactive Learning Environments, 1990
Discusses concurrent, or parallel, programming languages; explains the design of the MultiLogo programming language; and describes a study of fourth and fifth graders that used MultiLogo to control robotic devices built out of Lego bricks. Three categories of MultiLogo programming bugs are described, and implications for changes in design and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Error Patterns, Futures (of Society), Grade 4
Estimating the Time Required to Produce Computer-Based Instructional Lessons: Descriptive Analyses of the Production Data of Novice Instructional Developers.
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Cates, Ward Mitchell – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1994
Discussion of the time needed to create computer-based instruction focuses on descriptive analyses of production data gathered from novice instructional designers and novice authors who used a commercial authoring system to produce computer-based lessons. Production ratios are explained, and future research plans are discussed. (Contains five…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programming), Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Development, Courseware
Computer-Based Mathematics Learning.
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McCoy, Leah P. – Journal of Research on Computing in Education, 1996
Examines research on computer-based mathematics learning in the context of constructivist learning and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Standards. The reviewed studies examined the effectiveness of computer software in the three categories of programming, computer-assisted instruction, and mathematical tools. Future research is…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Constructivism (Learning), Courseware, Elementary Secondary Education
Individualizing Instruction in a Web-based Hypermedia Learning Environment: Nonlinearity, Advance Organizers, and Self-Regulated Learners.
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McManus, Thomas Fox – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2000
Discussion of the interaction of instructional strategies and learner characteristics focuses on linearity versus nonlinearity, self-regulated learning, and advance organizers in knowledge acquisition in a Web-based hypermedia learning environment. Highlights include results from an analysis of covariance; variables including computer anxiety and…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Analysis of Covariance, Computer Anxiety, Computer Assisted Instruction