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Smith, Thomas – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2010
This presentation focuses on an initial evaluation study of Math Recovery (MR), a pullout, one-to-one tutoring program that has been designed to increase mathematics achievement among low-performing first graders, thereby closing the school-entry achievement gap and enabling participants to achieve at the level of their higher-performing peers in…
Descriptors: Intervention, Mathematics Achievement, Program Implementation, Grade 1
Devall, Yvonna – Computing Teacher, 1984
Reviews the best currently available spelling software, including drill and practice, tutorial, game, and proofreading/word processing programs, and discusses criteria for spelling software selection. (MBR)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Costs, Drills (Practice), Educational Games
Varlaro, Michael A. – 2003
This inquiry investigates what happened when second grade students taught their peers how to use Microsoft PowerPoint. The study specifically focused on second graders' behaviors when they worked in pairs situated around a computer to create autobiographical slide shows. The setting for this study was a public elementary school in a suburb outside…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Education, Grade 2
Kulik, Chen-Lin C.; And Others – 1984
A meta-analysis was conducted of 29 comparative studies located primarily through computer searches of Comprehensive Dissertation Abstracts and ERIC. Studies chosen took place in actual elementary classrooms, reported measured outcomes for both computer-based education and control classes, and were free from methodological flaws. A total of 21…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Software
Hodges, Bob – Learning & Leading with Technology, 1997
Provides a model for task computing for fifth graders that meets educational technology goals and challenges students to take full advantage of available hardware and software. Highlights include task rotation; assessment; benefits, including integrating technology into the classroom, computer literacy skills, peer tutoring, cooperative learning,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Software, Cooperative Learning
Levin, Henry M. – 1984
The purpose of this paper is to examine what is known about the costs and cost-effectiveness of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) by presenting an appropriate cost methodology, applying it to CAI, and exploring the validity of four popular assumptions. These assumptions are: (1) that computer hardware accounts for most of the cost of delivering…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adults, Class Size, Computer Assisted Instruction
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers