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McGowan, John; Clark, Richard E. – Performance and Instruction, 1985
Explores assumptions about student ability that underlie current instructional software design and the possibility that a behaviorist bias influences software design strategies; offers evidence that a behaviorist instructional strategy helps low-ability and hinders high-ability students; presents a contrasting instructional approach; and reviews…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Behavior Theories, Computer Software
Peer reviewedCanino, Casilda; Cicchelli, Terry – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1988
Describes aptitude treatment interaction study that used the cognitive styles field dependence and independence matched with computerized algorithmic and discovery treatments to determine mathematics achievement on a criterion-referenced test. Posttest mathematics scores and student responses to the computer are analyzed, and mastery learning is…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Analysis of Covariance, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Computer Assisted Instruction
