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Polis, A. Richard – 1994
This paper describes one accreditation team leader's experience with coordinating the entire team accreditation review process on personal computer and offers 14 suggestions for future implementation. The leaders of the accreditation team describes pre-accreditation visit arrangements to facilitate the use of computers. He polled team members on…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education
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Lewis, Rena B.; Graves, Anne W.; Ashton, Tamarah M.; Kieley, Candace L. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1998
A study examined the effects of several text-entry methods, including handwriting and five computer-based approaches, in enhancing the speed of text entry for 108 students with learning disabilities. Handwriting was found to be the fastest mode of text entry, followed by word prediction. All methods improved writing accuracy. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Handwriting
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Ikeda, Shinichi – Journal of Reading, 1988
Relates how the increased use of the word processors is changing life in Japan and predicts both positive and negative effects on language education. Illustrates some features of the Japanese language. (NH)
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
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Saka, Thomas T. – Computers in Human Services, 1985
The computer has been used successfully in the education of persons with handicaps. Five subjects with developmental disabilities were selected for a six-month study and trained to use the microcomputer in performing basic data entry and word processing tasks. Four of the five subjects were placed in computer-related occupations following the…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education, Developmental Disabilities
Turner, Judith Axler – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1986
Clarkson University provides each student with a Zenith microcomputer, the cost covered by tuition, eliminating many problems of computer availability and opening doors in the curriculum that were previously closed. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Environment, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy
Haffey, Larry J. – 1994
There are a variety of computing tools available in educational institutions. With the knowledge of standard tools and how they can be used to compliment one another, students can gain impressive skills in information presentation. This paper describes a method for science students to use in preparing data for analysis and dissemination and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education, Data Analysis
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Hanks, Walter A.; Barnes, Michael D.; Merrill, Ray M.; Neiger, Brad L. – Journal of Health Education, 2000
Investigated how health educators currently used computers and how they expected to use them in the future. Surveys of practicing health educators at many types of sites indicated that important current abilities included Internet, word processing, and electronic presentation skills. Important future tasks and skills included developing computer…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education
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Green, Kenneth C. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1988
The past decade has seen dramatic changes in administrative computing, including more systems, more applications, a new group of computer users, and new opportunities for computer use in campus administration. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Administration, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Change
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Powell, James L. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1988
The description of the day of a hypothetical college president and his intense use of microcomputers illustrates how the use of this technology may become integrated into administrative style and efficiency. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Administration, College Presidents, Computer Oriented Programs
Hansen, Sandra – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1992
A summer program for gifted and talented students combined students' interests in writing and computers, as students worked together to create a "Choose Your Own Adventure" book, using computer word processing, graphics, and publishing programs to produce the book. (JDD)
Descriptors: Computer Graphics, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education, Creativity
Pisapia, John – 1994
Productivity tools allow students to do something that was not possible without technology and then to share their results with others. In contrast to traditional software that encourages linear procedural processes, tool software is open-ended. Productivity tools include word processing, spread sheets, graphics, and telecommunications software.…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning
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Sullivan, Patricia – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 1989
Presents the results of a survey of Purdue University students' knowledge of, use of, and attitudes toward computers as they enter the technical writing class. Contrasts the technical students with upper division humanities students and draws conclusions about documentation requirements and appropriate computer use goals for the students surveyed.…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Comparative Analysis, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education
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Ramos, Donald; Wheeler, Robert, A. – History Teacher, 1989
Describes the use of computers in a comparative history course. Outlines course objectives and stresses the incorporation of computers into hypothesis formulation. Discusses available software packages and the pros and cons of each. Concludes with further recommendations for the use of computers in the classroom. (RW)
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education
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Garland, Virginia E. – Planning and Changing, 1989
Educational administration program coordinators in over 200 U.S. and Canadian universities were asked to indicate which computer applications and course developments they thought would prove most useful in training school leaders for 1990s. The highest ranked skills were word processing, scheduling, database management, budgeting, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Budgeting, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education
Schwartz, Helen J. – 1986
Computer use in the English classroom has the potential to help students enjoy and integrate their learning of writing and reading of literature in new ways. This new relationship between the student and machine-readable text can be thought of in terms of Alvin Toffler's theory of the "prosumer," a person who uses Information Age…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software Reviews, Computer Uses in Education
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