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Peer reviewedBalajthy, Ernest – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1997
Presents the first year's results of a continuing project to monitor the availability of software of relevance for literacy education purposes. Concludes there is an enormous amount of software available for use by teachers of reading and literacy--whereas drill-and-practice software is the largest category of software available, large numbers of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Electronic Text, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedMacArthur, Charles A. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1999
Reviews specific ways in which computers can support the basic transcription processes involved in writing, focusing on computer applications that go beyond word processing, including spelling and grammar checkers, speech synthesis, word prediction, and speech recognition. Focuses only on writing mechanics, and clarifies the extent to which…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedTopping, Keith J.; Paul, Terry D. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1999
Explores the relationship between practice at reading, student reading performance, and organizational features using data from a computer-assisted student self-assessment of reading comprehension program (The Accelerated Reader). Finds student reading ability strongly positively related to amount of in-school reading practice; amount of reading…
Descriptors: Action Research, Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
