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Stuck, M. F. – 1989
This guide provides an introduction to the use of microcomputers with qualitative data. It is deliberately non-specific and rudimentary in order to be of maximum benefit to the widest possible audience of beginning microcomputer users who wish to analyze their data using software that is not specifically designed for qualitative data analysis. The…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Data Analysis, Database Management Systems, Ethnography
Classroom Computer Learning, 1983
Activities for middle/junior high school students are presented, including use of string variables, science lesson ideas, computer scavenger hunt, and guidelines for interviewing people who own/use computers. Includes "I'll Write...Just Lead Me to My Computer" by Robert Engberg, discussing word processing instruction. (JN)
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Computer Science Education, Interviews, Learning Activities
Deaton, Meneta P. – 1991
This report contains the rationale for and results of a study investigating computer integration in the primary grades. The study encompassed functions and purposes of computer use, the subjects and programs currently in classroom use, and the extent of microcomputer use by student and teacher. Sources of investigation included published…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Software

Teles, Lucio – Education and Computing, 1988
Describes study conducted at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) that investigated the adoption of word processing for dissertation writing by doctoral students. Perceived attributes of word processing that affect the adoption or rejection of word processing are examined and their influence on the writing process is discussed.…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Doctoral Dissertations, Foreign Countries, Graduate Students
Ashworth, Daniel; Atmore, David – 1989
This study sought to examine the group dynamics of children working and learning collaboratively on a computer-based instructional writing task. Standard 3 and 4 children at two urban primary schools in the Dunedin area of New Zealand were assigned the task of producing illustrated interactive stories using the "Twist-a-plot" program.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Pastori, Sharon; And Others – 1986
This review of the activities of LEAP (Literacy for Every Adult Project), a free, basic skills tutorial program for adults, is divided into two parts. Part 1 provides the most recent assessment of the LEAP microcomputer learning center, which was funded in 1985 through a Library Services and Construction Act grant, and Part 2 details the early…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software