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Smithy-Willis, Deborah; And Others – Educational Computer, 1982
Describes a study in which preschool children, enrolled in a Head Start Program in Texas, tested computer-assisted instruction facilitating visual discrimination. The study, in which a TRS-80 Model III displayed alphabetical characters, showed that four-year-olds are able to learn simple visual discrimination tasks from a computer. (JJD)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Disadvantaged Youth, Discrimination Learning, Educational Research
Peer reviewedNewby, T. J.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1988
In two studies with 50 male and 50 female undergraduates, differences in learning highly interfering paired-associate discrimination tasks were compared with or without visual mediational cues and with aural cues only. Visual mediational instruction reduced interference between similar signals and facilitated their association with the correct…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Stimuli, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Assisted Testing
Peer reviewedLangone, John; Shade, Jill; Clees, Tom J.; Day, Tonya – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 1999
This study evaluated the effectiveness of a multimedia computer-based instructional program with four middle school students with moderate/severe mental retardation in establishing match-to-sample skills and generalizing those skills to the natural setting (a grocery store). In vivo probes found mean and median duration to find target items…
Descriptors: Community Based Instruction (Disabilities), Computer Assisted Instruction, Consumer Education, Daily Living Skills
