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Rio Salado Community Coll., AZ. – 1991
Researchers at Rio Salado Community College (Arizona) directing an educational research project, called the Southwest Advanced Learning System for Adults (SALSA), placed personal computers in the homes of production line workers as a supplement to traditional classroom basic skills training. Objectives were to determine whether this supplemental…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Blue Collar Occupations, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Wangberg, Elaine G. – Computers in the Schools, 1986
Describes the development and pilot testing of an interactive software lesson series designed to increase reading and writing abilities of illiterate adults and adolescents. Results of pilot studies of the High Quality Educational Program indicate the microcomputer approach to instruction combined with appropriate software offers a promising tool…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Adult Literacy, Adults
Karlstein, Patricia J. – Technological Horizons in Education, 1988
Describes a structured 20 week program in which the mastery of one segment in the sequence prepares the student for the next step. Focuses on reading and writing, with touch-typing providing a strong backup. Includes a history and principles of the program and the role of the teacher. (MVL)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Educationally Disadvantaged
Scherer, Charlotte – 1990
Eighty-eight sets of parents who enrolled their 4- and 5-year-old children in computer classes completed a questionnaire designed to gather demographic data and information about their reasons for enrolling the children and their attitudes about the importance of computer competence. Parents could check one of three reasons for enrolling their…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Creative Development, Enrollment Influences, Mathematics Skills
Girard, Suzanne; Willing, Kathlene R. – 1984
Intended for young children just becoming familiar with computers, this counting book introduces and reinforces new computer vocabulary and concepts. The numbers, from one to twelve, are presented along with words and illustrations from the world of computers, allowing for different activities in which children can count or match and name the…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Computer Literacy, Learning Activities, Microcomputers
Willing, Kathlene R.; Girard, Suzanne – 1984
Intended for young children just becoming familiar with computers, this naming book introduces and reinforces new computer vocabulary and concepts. The 20 words are presented alphabetically, along with illustrations, providing room for different activities in which children can match and name the pictures and words. The 20 vocabulary items are…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Computer Literacy, Computers, Elementary Education
McCall, Cecelia – 1984
Designed to promote the use of microcomputers in reading instruction, this paper attempts to dispell apprehensions that the errors made when adapting television to the classroom may occur again with microcomputers. Examples of the failure of television to teach reading in the 1960s and 1970s are presented, and it is pointed out that television, a…
Descriptors: Childrens Television, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Software
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TechTrends, 1990
Describes children's books available on CD-ROM that can be read using Apple Macintosh computers. Literacy problems with adults and children are discussed, the use of Discis books to encourage reading and improve understanding is described, first- and second-language learning is discussed, and a list of currently available titles is provided. (LRW)
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Childrens Literature, Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Education
Richardson, Elizabeth; And Others – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1990
In an effort to improve the student literacy, a school district in Mississippi implemented the semantic-mapping or cognitive-mapping approach, using the Thinking Networks for Reading and Writing package which provides software, text activities, and semantic maps. Library media specialists played a major role in the project as teacher-trainers,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Elementary Secondary Education
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Gore, Dolores A.; And Others – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1989
Describes study that was conducted to determine whether four- and five-year-old preschoolers could be taught reading skills with computer-assisted instruction, and whether they could learn basic computer literacy skills without direct instruction and drill. Software is described, and the pretest/posttest single group design is explained. (16…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Courseware
Edwards, Bruce L., Jr. – 1985
In Western culture literacy encompasses a constellation of values and beliefs far beyond what might be attributed to the mechanical ability to read and write. Many people prize literacy as an end in itself, and attribute to it a whole spectrum of values and social privileges disproportionate to its actual functions in society. They forget that…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Technology, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education
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Kinzer, Charles K. – Journal of Reading, 1986
Presents a categorization system that allows potential microcomputer users to make more reasoned, conscious choices to ensure that a range of software types and activities are available for their instructional programs. (SRT)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Simulation, Computer Software
Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Freyd, Pamela – 1984
To determine if people analyze words in online reading, an experiment was conducted with 12 congenitally deaf, second generation sign language users with a reading level of 6.64 on a standardized reading achievement test. The hearing controls included seventh and eighth grade students who were matched for reading level. Both groups were split in…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Deafness, Grade 7, Grade 8
Duffy, Thomas M.; And Others – 1985
A program referred to as Language Skills Computer Assisted Instruction (LaSCAI) was chosen to assist volunteer tutors in improving the reading skills of adults. The program was demonstrated at two libraries--one rural and one urban--and an evaluation was completed to determine its applicability in enhancing the on-going tutoring programs at these…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Computer Assisted Instruction, Interviews
Robinson, Brent – 1983
This paper looks at the potential of the new electronic media of broadcast television (including teletext and interactive cable), the videodisc, and the microcomputer. It examines the nature and extent of these media as textual communication systems and considers their implications in terms of both the reading skills they demand, and the ways in…
Descriptors: Broadcast Television, Cable Television, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software
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