IN THREE AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY--POLICY CONSIDERATION, PROGRAM FORMULATION, AND PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION--EDUCATIONAL PLANNERS ARE RELATIVELY UNPREPARED TO MAKE DECISIONS AFFECTING URBAN EDUCATION IN BOTH THE IMMEDIATE AND THE DISTANT FUTURE. THESE THREE FUNDAMENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES INVOLVE IDENTIFYING EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES, OPPORTUNITIES, AND…

THIS GUIDE EXPLAINS HOW A COMPUTER MIGHT BE USED IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE REGULAR COURSE OF STUDY. STARTING WITH THE PREMISE THAT A CHILD WHO LEARNS TO OPERATE A COMPUTER IS LED BY HIS NEW SELF ESTEEM TOWARD A GREATER INTEREST IN HIS COURSES, THE AUTHORS STATE THAT COMPUTER EDUCATION WILL ALSO MEET THESE OBJECTIVES--(1)…

Simulation games serve many functions, but the important one to educators is that they present the student player with a real-life situation allowing him to use his knowledge and abilities while discovering decision-making skills for himself. To provide a basic reference on simulation gaming, essays on various aspects of games were collected from…

When assessing the influence of computer assisted instruction, attention should be given not only to rate and error of performance in the acquisition of content, but also to non-performance aspects of children's behavior. To this purpose,, computer assisted instruction (CAI) was given to 45 first grade students for 35 minutes during each day of…

The theme of this conference, "New Directions in Foreign Language Teaching," is introduced by Theodore Buebener and is expanded in the five papers comprising this volume. The papers included are "New Directions in the Teaching of Foreign Languages--An Evaluation" by Peter M. Boyd-Bowman, "An Appraisal of Audio-Lingualism in Historical Perspective"…

The development phases of an operational computer managed instruction (CMI) system include planning, when the instructional model is designed; acquisition, when instructional system specifications are prepared; implementation/operation, which provides for the resolution of operational problems; evaluation, when the system is tested; and…

The purpose of this study was to determine if relationships existed among teaching experience, teacher concern level, and achievement of a skill used in teaching science. The teaching skill selected was the identification and use of behavioral objectives. Thirty-four experienced elementary school teachers and 26 undergraduate elementary education…

The Canadian Department of Education developed this manual to provide teachers and administrators with information about the potential use of computers. Part I describes at length the five components of the computer input, output, storage, control, and arithmetic/logic functions) and gives a discussion of computer languages, programing, batch…

The BASIC Instructional Program (BIP) is an interactive problem-solving laboratory that offers tutorial assistance to students solving introductory programing problems in the BASIC language. After a brief review of the rationale and origins of the BIP instructional system, the design and implementation of BIP's curriculum information network are…

Business and management study programs are making increasing but still limited use of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) as an instructional tool. The cost of course development and design for business and management instruction is high, but declining hardware costs and increasing use will lower per student hour costs. CAI is now used primarily…

Design theory should identify candidate designers, specify design behavior to be measured, and discriminate between behavior of designers and nondesigners. A study evaluated different formats of computerized structural display and data entry to measure design behavior. A program using graph theory as an internal data structure in the computer and…

The instruments used in the evaluation of Project C-BE (computer-based instruction) are presented and described in this report. A brief description of each instrument, its purpose, developmental history, references and reliability studies are provided. These instruments were administered to Project C-BE classes in an attempt to identify…

Ten Veterans Administration hospitals in Appalachia participated in five biomedical communication experiments using the Advanced Technology Satellite (ATS-6). Material was collected and evaluated by both questionnaires and interviews with the medical staff of the 10 hospitals. The five experiments were conducted in the areas of: (1) video…

A series of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) courses, called CARE (Computer Assisted Renewal Education), and a prototype mobile CAI van were developed to train teachers to identify handicpping conditions and to develop prescriptive and diagnostic teaching techniques for handicapped students. The project was designed to help with the placement…

The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate an instructional model which utilized the computer to produce individually prescribed instructional guides in physics at the secondary school level. The sample consisted of three classes. Of these, two were randomly selected to serve as the treatment groups, e.g., individualized instruction and…