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Monahan, Brian D. – Educational Technology, 1986
This study investigated whether computer science educational background makes secondary students more adept at using word processing capabilities, and compared computer science and non-computer science students' writing improvement with word processing use. Computer science students used more sophisticated program features but student writing did…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Science Education, Prior Learning, Questionnaires
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
Peer reviewedWoodrow, Janice E. J. – Journal of Research on Computing in Education, 1991
Describes a survey of secondary school teachers that was conducted to determine their perceptions of their own computer needs and those of their students. The questionnaire, which was completed by 92 teachers, focused on their computer attitudes, needs, and experience. Responses showed that teachers viewed word processing as a high priority for…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Needs Assessment, Prior Learning, Questionnaires
Li Nim-Yu, Kitty – 1990
A study investigated the relative effects of using computers and writing by hand on secondary students' quality or quantity of writing, and on their attitudes toward writing. Subjects were 40 eighth-grade students in an Anglo-Chinese school in Hong Kong, with some experience in writing brief compositions. The word processing program used was…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Grade 8
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
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
Download full textTella, Seppo – 1992
The educational potential accessible with the aid of international communications networks and computer-mediated communication was explored with Finnish secondary school students in an ethnographic study that also investigated gender differences and quality of education. Subjects were 108 students (46 males and 62 females) from six classes in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Educational Environment
Bjur, Michael P. – 1984
This volume comprises the final report of a project to develop curricula for eight vocational and technical occupations as well as copies of the curricula themselves. The individual curricula address the following occupational areas: automotive repair, computer technology, dental assisting, diesel and heavy equipment mechanics, electronics, food…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Auto Mechanics, Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques
