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McCarron, Elizabeth; Frydenberg, Mark – Information Systems Education Journal, 2023
Students today are often assumed to be digitally literate and prepared for college, but that is not always the case. Introductory technology courses at the college level provide students with the technology and digital skills necessary for them to succeed in college. This study, conducted at a small New England "business school" that…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Technological Literacy, Educational Technology, Business Schools
Rohde, Renate I. – 1991
The impact of word processing on students' attitudes and grades was studied using 235 students in 15 sections of freshmen composition at a large midwestern university. Students in the word-processing sections wrote and revised their papers on the Macintosh Plus using the software MacWrite. Students in the traditional sections used paper, pencils,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Sheffield, Caryl J. – Action in Teacher Education, 1996
Reports a study that examined entering preservice teachers' prior experience in word processing, database, and spreadsheet software, based on self-reported information. Factors that influenced students' entering skills (for example, gender and computer experience) were noted. Survey data indicated that the subjects had little prior knowledge of…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Computer Literacy, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education
Teichman, Milton – Perspectives in Computing: Applications in the Academic and Scientific Community, 1985
Describes students' reactions to and comments on an experimental writing course in which all essays were composed on computer terminals using XEDIT and WATERLOO SCRIPT. Students had favorable reactions to revision ease and enjoyability factor, but reacted unfavorably to learning word processing, equipment failure, and confinement to one writing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, Computer Software, Computers
Strickland, James – 1987
Although there are many retrospective accounts from teachers and professional writers concerning the effect of computers on their writing, there are few real-time accounts of students struggling to simultaneously develop as writers and cope with computers. To fill this void in "testimonial data," a study examining talking-aloud protocols from a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Freshmen, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy
Wisconsin Univ. - Stout, Menomonie. – 1994
This study used a total quality management (TQM) approach to evaluate the perceived computer competency needs of students at the University of Wisconsin-Stout by surveying students (who were asked which of a list of competencies they had), administrators, alumni, and employers (who were asked which competencies they used or expected in employees).…
Descriptors: Administrators, Alumni, Basic Skills, College Freshmen