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Eiser, Leslie – Classroom Computer Learning, 1986
Highlights the advantages of word processors and spelling checkers in improving student writing skills. Explains how spelling checkers work and describes the types of available checkers. Also provides lists of Apple, IBM, and Commodore word processors and checkers. (ML)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Science Education, Computer Uses in Education, Microcomputers
Weaver, Phyllis A.; And Others – 1982
A training program was devised to develop automaticity of one subcomponent of reading--locating and disembedding multiletter units within words. The system involved the use of a training task that was implemented in a microcomputer-based game that required students to detect whether a target unit was presented within words that were shown in rapid…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, High Schools