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Coffin, Gregory C. – 1987
Two experimental programs, designed to increase Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores of inner city, low achieving students by using computer-assisted SAT preparation, produced differing results. Forty volunteers from a nearby high school were assigned to two groups of 20 each--one experimental and one control group. The first program provided six…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software
Houston Independent School District, TX. – 1986
A special 6-week program, designed to increase the scores of low achieving minority eighth-grade students on the ninth grade Texas Education Assessment of Minimum Skills (TEAMS) Test, was implemented in 1986 in the Houston Independent School District as "Summer Academies." The students, who voluntarily enrolled in the program, were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software
