The continuous advancement of natural user interfaces (NUIs) allows for the development of novel and creative ways to support collocated collaborative work in a wide range of areas, including teaching and learning. The use of NUIs, such as those based on interactive multi-touch surfaces and tangible user interfaces (TUIs), can offer unique…

The "Rainbow Shoppe", a two-hour distributive education preparatory project laboratory, is unique in its approach to simulating the real world of business because it uses computers to chart its sales, purchases, profits, and inventory. (Author)

THE OPERATION OF THE IBM 82 SORTER WAS TAUGHT TO THREE GROUPS OF STUDENTS IN THREE DIFFERENT 2-HOUR SESSIONS. THE GROUPS WERE STATISTICALLY EQUATED ON THE BASIS OF THE STUDENT'S SCORES ON THE SCAT AND IBM MACHINE OPERATORS TESTS. A "STANDARD CLASSROOM" METHOD (INVOLVING A LECTURE AND SUCH AIDS AS A CHALKBOARD AND HAND-OUTS) WAS FOLLOWED IN…

THE USE OF PRACTICE TESTS AS A LEARNING AID WAS EVALUATED. ATTEMPTS WERE MADE TO DEMONSTRATE HOW DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT COULD BE USED EFFECTIVELY TO REPRODUCE TESTS AND ANALYZE TEST RESULTS FOR IMPROVEMENT OF INSTRUCTION. INITIALLY, A CLASS OF STUDENTS IN TESTS AND MEASUREMENTS AT NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY (THE REFERENCE GROUP) WAS…

Reports a classroom experiment by future teachers at the University of Iowa to compare a traditional teacher-managed method of instruction to a student-managed method. Subject matter was a data processing unit of a secondary school bookkeeping course. No significant differences in student achievement scores were found. (MF)

This report, first in a series of seven, addressed the question, "What events disrupt classroom instruction and what are the most effective techniques teachers use to cope with these distractions?" This report describes the events which occurred in the evolution of the research study. The major sections are: (1) selection of the…

The Teaching Information Processing Systems (TIPS) is an elaborate and flexible computer program designed to amplify effective classroom instruction. It enables teachers to give individual instruction to large numbers of students, maintains student characteristics and achievement data, generates student progress reports, prescribes remedial or…

This guide is designed to provide job-relevant tasks, performance objectives, performance guides, resources, teaching activities, evaluation standards, and achievement testing for the occupation of information processing specialist. It can be used with any teaching method, and it addresses all three domains of learning: psychomotor, cognitive, and…

A discussion of survey methodology for investigating second language programs and instruction examines two methods: oral interviews and written questionnaires. Each method is defined, and variations are explored. For interviews, this includes individual, group, and telephone interviews. For questionnaires, this includes self-administered and…

This curriculum guide is designed for use in familiarizing students enrolled in business and office occupations courses with the capabilities and operation of computers. The first part of the guide includes a brief description of the course and explains who should take and who should teach computer literacy courses, how much time is necessary to…

This project had a two-fold objective, namely to record on film aspects of a significant period in the history of education in the United States which had been reported almost entirely in print heretofore, and to organize and structure this information so as to link theory with practice, to the improvement of instruction generally when used in…

This guide is a training plan for the clerical skills cluster of the Skills Training and Education Program (STEP), an open-entry, open-exit program funded by the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). In the STEP training plan, each task has its own lesson plan guide. This manual contains the following information: definitions, instructions for…

This document, which reflects Mississippi's statutory requirement that instructional programs be based on core curricula and performance-based assessment, contains outlines of the instructional units required in local instructional management plans and daily lesson plans for two secondary-level courses in business and computer data processing:…

This module is the third in a series of electronics publications and serves as a supplement to "General Electronics Technician." It is designed to provide students with an overview of the broad field of communications. Included are those tasks above the basic skills level that allow students to progress to a higher level of competency in the…

While many aspects of high technology may be directly applicable in the vocational agricultural classroom, the primary thrust of high technology into such programs, at least in the short range, will be centered around the microcomputer. Because of its cost and availability, the microcomputer will continue to play an ever increasing role in…