Measures for assessing hostility and alphabetizing skills of 48 third graders in a learning center and a traditional instructional mode were taken over a twenty-day period. Alphabetizing skills increased for both groups. The hostility scores of the traditional students also increased, but not significantly. (RL)

This study was conducted to determine whether the traditional classroom approach to instruction involving the addition and subtraction of number facts (digits 0-6) is more or less effective than the traditional classroom approach plus a commercially-prepared computer game. A pretest-posttest control group design was used with two groups of first…

An experimental study compared the instructional effectiveness of Logo programming, commercially available software designed to aid composition and problem solving, and traditional teaching methods for low socioeconomic status first-grade students. Both software environments enhanced problem solving performance for a novel task, but Logo was most…