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Peer reviewedEvans, Peter; And Others – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1984
Use of microcomputers to teach basic prose writing to university students was investigated. The CAI program presented information, responded to answers, and evaluated input. Subjects were 50 University of Victoria freshmen. Few significant differences occured between experimental and control groups. CAI can apparently be used effectively to…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Computer Assisted Instruction, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Grabe, Mark; Dosmann, Mark – Journal of Computer-Based Instruction, 1988
Considers the instructional potential of computer adventure games to develop text-processing skills. Design improvements to increase metacognitive skills are discussed, a prototype adventure game utilizing intact prose is described, and a study using the game with sixth-grade readers of varying ability is reported. (LRW)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Analysis of Variance, Computer Games, Connected Discourse
