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Davis, Lloyd – 1988
This study evaluated the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's Word Processing Center by surveying faculty and administrative use of word processing and personal computers. Questionnaires were sent to all faculty and academic and administrative departments, and 130 responses were received from faculty, 33 from academic departments, and 47 from…
Descriptors: Administrators, College Faculty, Higher Education, Microcomputers
Collins, Carmen – Collegiate Microcomputer, 1985
Suggests the growing use of computers to process information in today's world increases the human need for an interactive competency in writing and reading. The integration of instruction in reading and writing, particularly through use of word processors, is discussed as a way to strengthen this interaction. (MBR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Literacy, Interaction, Literacy
Dwyer, Herbert J. – 1990
This study investigated student preferences for either teacher-written or computer-generated marking of written compositions. Ninety-seven high school students typed assigned compositions on a word processor. Three skills pre-selected by the teacher were checked on each composition. Students were randomly assigned to treatments so that, on the…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, High School Students, Microcomputers, Questionnaires
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Malaney, Gary D.; Thurman, Quint – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 1990
Describes study that was conducted at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to examine variables that determine which undergraduates use microcomputers and how often they use them. Computer access, expected future computer use, and prior computer experience are discussed, and the influences of gender and class rank are examined. (17…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Higher Education, Microcomputers, Predictor Variables
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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
Johnson, Heidi; Churchill, Lynn D. – 1986
This study compared the effectiveness of the use of computer-based training (CBT) and instructor-based training (IBT) to train teaching assistants how to use the word processing program Microsoft Word. Thirteen faculty, staff, and graduate student volunteers served as subjects and were randomly assigned to either the computer-based or…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Formative Evaluation, Higher Education
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
Morse, Frances K.; Daiute, Colette – 1992
There is a burgeoning body of research on gender differences in computing attitudes and behaviors. After a decade of experience, researchers from both inside and outside the field of educational computing research are raising methodological and conceptual issues which suggest that perhaps researchers have shortchanged girls and women in…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Computer Software, High Schools, Hypermedia
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Louie, Steven; And Others – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 1986
Describes a study in which 46 high socioeconomic status elementary and secondary children were exposed to Logo and Bank Street Writer at a computer camp. After exposure, children 12 and under minimally shifted toward an internal locus of control as measured by the Nowicki-Strickland Locus of Control Scale for Children. (Author/MBR)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Item Analysis
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Russon, A. E.; And Others – Computers in Human Behavior, 1994
Describes a study that investigated how to teach computer skills to undergraduate female novice users through the design of an instructional manual that facilitated learning computer skills and increased computer self-efficacy by using familiar analogies. Treatment of the experimental and control groups is explained, and measurement techniques are…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Females
Levine, L.; And Others – 1986
The impact of growing numbers of personal computers at Dartmouth College was assessed. During one academic year (1984- 1985), the number of personal computers (mostly Macintoshes) grew from less than 50 to almost 2,000. The assessment focused on three areas: purchase and admissions data, student life, and the curriculum. Tentative findings…
Descriptors: College Applicants, College Curriculum, College Faculty, College Students
Burnside, Patricia – 1991
This report describes the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of a learning activity package intended to enable middle school students to view and use the computer as a tool that has application in their everyday lives. Eighth grade students in two keyboarding classes used the computer as a word processing tool in the subject of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Grade 8, Individualized Instruction, Instructional Design
Mowe, Richard – 1993
This book enables educators at the elementary level to conduct formative evaluations of their technology programs in minimum time. Most of the technology is computer related, including word processing, graphics, desktop publishing, spreadsheets, databases, instructional software, programming, and telecommunications. The design of the book is aimed…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Computer Software, Courseware
Bender, Evelyn – 1988
The American Library Association's Carroll Preston Baber Research Award supported this project on the use, impact and feasibility of a computer assisted writing facility located in the library of Stetson Middle School in Philadelphia, an inner city school with a population of minority, "at risk" students. The writing facility consisted…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Disadvantaged Youth, English Instruction, Feasibility Studies
Goodman, Harriett Ziskin – 1990
A training module developed following the Instructional System Design model was implemented at Nassau Community College (NCC) to teach its administration, faculty, and staff members computer skills that would enable them to use the available computer equipment more efficiently. Using this module, each trainee designed a file to be used for the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Computer Literacy, Course Evaluation, Database Management Systems