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Yang, Fu-mei – 1995
This study investigated the effects of augmenting and deleting elaborations in an existing self-instructional text for a micro-computer database application, "Microsoft Works User's Manual." A total of 60 undergraduate students were randomly assigned to the original, elaborated, or unelaborated text versions. The elaborated version…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Guides, Higher Education, Programmed Instructional Materials
Garcez, Pedro M. – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1995
This paper offers an interpretive microanalysis of university students' work session with "Philippe," a multi-media instructional program for foreign language learning. The main objective of Philippe is to provide French-as-a-Foreign-Language learners with what is widely assumed to be what they need most: contacts with native speakers of the…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Educational Technology
Simic, Marge, Comp.; Essex, Christopher, Comp. – 1996
One of a series of educational packages designed for implementation either in a workshop atmosphere or through individual study, this Hot Topic guide presents a variety of materials to assist educators in designing and implementing classroom projects and activities centering on the topic of the computer as an aid to reading instruction. The Hot…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Distance Education, Educational Technology
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Hallberg, M. C. – Journal of Economic Education, 1995
Describes a computer software program that allows students, working independently and interactively with the computer, to select alternative market conditions and/or policies and view the results numerically as well as graphically. Discusses options and models provided by the software as well as classroom applications. (MJP)
Descriptors: Competition, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software
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Whitmarsh, David – Journal of Economic Education, 1995
Maintains that computer-assisted instruction built around a spreadsheet-based model can illustrate and simplify some of the more difficult concepts concerning economics and fisheries. Describes a software program that illustrates overcapitalization, asset fixity, resource rent capture, economic optimum, and sustainable yield. (MJP)
Descriptors: Business Cycles, Capital, Competition, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Li, Elton; Stoecker, Arthur – Journal of Economic Education, 1995
Describes a computer software program where students define alternative policy sets and compare their effects on the welfare of consumers, producers, and the public sector. Policy sets may be a single tax or quota or a mix of taxes, subsidies, and/or price supports implemented in the marketing chain. (MJP)
Descriptors: Competition, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software