Efforts to apply knowledge gained from the study of the psychology of learning to actual teaching have been largely marked by frustration--until recently--when programed learning and its special derivative, computer assisted instruction, made their appearance. In programed learning you know where the student is and what he is doing, and what he…

Experiments focused on (a) how a subject directs his attention and explores the problem environment created by the task to be learned, and (b) how the subject's learning process can be facilitated by CAI systems. In all experiments, the subject interacted with an automaton responsible for controlling the experimental environment. The automaton was…

An instructional monitor is a program which tries to detect, diagnose, and possibly help overcome a student's learning difficulties in the course of solving a problem or performing a task. In one approach to building an instructional monitor, the student uses a special task- or problem-oriented language expressly designed around some particular…

In order to measure the value of student feedback in contributing to the refinement of instructional frames in computer-assisted instruction (CAI), a stand-alone CAI frame was written around a question designed to elicit a wide variety of replies. Half of a real sample of fifty handwritten responses were submitted to the frame, with a match score…

This study was designed to investigate the effect of allowing students to generate their own problems and make their own decisions concerning their rate of progress through the instructional materials. An IBM 1500-1130 instructional system was used for the study. A program was developed to provide 72 different prototype arithmetic practice…

The experimental project which resulted in this manual utilized an electronic calculator to aid in mathematics instruction in the 11th and 12th grades. The requirements for implementing the program are described and illustrated by the experiences at the pilot school. A curriculum guide is given for the inservice teacher training program.…

In spite of the limitations of minicomputers, Western Washington State College (WWSC) has developed a useful interactive computing system based on a Model 7/32 Interdata minicomputer and the computer program, PILOT. The major disadvantages of minicomputers are the difficulty of securing maintenance and the reliance often on the single language,…

Some examples of the usage of computers in teaching and learning are examination generation, automatic exam grading, student tracking, problem generation, computational examination generators, program packages, simulation, and programing skills for problem solving. These applications are non-trivial and do fulfill the basic assumptions necessary…

Distributions and linear regressions are discussed. The section dealing with the former topic emphasizes the usefulness of computer programs in statistics, demonstrating their ability to handle tedious and time-consuming tasks. The normal curve is stressed since the assumption of a normal distribution is common. An example of 200 data points is…

The coding language INSTRUCT is a high-level programing language designed for programing computer-assisted instruction lessons. As it is presently implemented on the PDP-10 computer, a "lesson processor" transforms the INSTRUCT lessons into a numeric code that can be understood by a teaching program called INST. INST controls the…

Three examples of how the computer terminal can be used to provide the kind of "pictorial" information that makes graphs such a valuable aid in the teaching of quantitatively oriented subjects are presented. In the first example the graph is part of the "frame" of information presented to a student in a tutorial which reviews…

The application of theoretical models of instructional strategies to the design and the implementation of a computer-controlled instructional system and to the development of a practical course of instruction in computer programing is briefly described. (Author)

A computer program is described here which will do an in-depth grading analysis of a student's attempt to produce a required German sentence. The grading program is given a description of the expected response and the sentence actually constructed by the student, the two are compared, and a complete diagnostic report of the correctness of the…

A study was made of the effects of presenting instructional objectives to students in a graduate computer-managed course. It was expected that the availability of behaviorally stated objectives would reduce test item response latency, increase study time, and reduce state anxiety. Since all subjects were required to reach criterion on each unit of…

THE ROLE OF THE COMPUTER IN UNDERGRADUATE PHYSICS INSTRUCTION IS PRESENTED. MAJOR TOPICS INCLUDED IN THE REPORT ARE CURRICULAR ADMINISTRATIVE PROBLEMS, PEDAGOGICAL TECHNIQUES, AND SYSTEMS AND EQUIPMENT. INFORMATION RELATED TO LINGUISTICS MODE COMPUTER SYSTEMS, REMOTE CONSOLE EQUIPMENT, LINGUISTICS MODE PHYSICS PROGRAMS, COMPUTATIONAL MODE PHYSICS…