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Meyers, Laura F. – Writing Notebook: Creative Word Processing in the Classroom, 1992
Describes a research project in which elementary students with learning disabilities participate in both individual and cooperative computer-enhanced writing sessions, using three types of topics: free choice, literature based, and fantasy based. Finds the computer-enhanced whole-language writing sessions more instructionally effective than the…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Computer Networks, Computers, Elementary Education
Download full textNewman, Denis; And Others – 1993
In the fall of 1990, seven teachers at the Ralph Bunche School, a public elementary school in Harlem (New York) began an experiment in school restructuring they called the Computer Mini-School. An unexpected outcome of the project was an increase in standardized test scores among their 120 students. This outcome is explored. It is argued that the…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Educational Change
