Fourth in a series, this cumulative report reviews Apple computer courseware and some IBM courseware (Business and Math sections) authorized by Alberta Education from January 1983 through May 1985. It provides detailed evaluations of 168 authorized titles in business education (17), computer literacy (12), early childhood education (8), language…

This study of the impact of technology on education is an in-depth case study of 25 educational institutions, including both public school districts and colleges and universities. Information was gathered through the use of a lengthy questionnaire and a comprehensive telephone and/or site visit interview. Aspects of the study include the role of…

As the originator and administrator of the Village Library Project in Alaska, Kuskokwim Community College commissioned this study to: (1) determine the status quo of the 16 village libraries in the delta area; (2) identify the factors which help determine their success; (3) determine whether they can successfully operate independently without…

The 11 papers presented in these proceedings focus on the general theme, "Factors Other Than Teaching That Influence Reading Achievement." The following topics are covered: (1) the relationship between culture and reading achievement, (2) the influence of language on reading, (3) levels of cultural knowledge and self-esteem of intermediate grade…

This report provides perspectives from the literature and from consultation with LOGO experts for viewing, evaluating, formalizing, and improving use of the LOGO programming language in education. Contents of the report include: a discussion of the instructional structure of LOGO which centers around its turtle mode, list processing nature, and…

Prepared for a 1984 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) conference, this report discusses the potential of the new information technologies for enhancing learning in school, vocational, and general education, and presents eight groups of case studies taken from member countries which illustrate what is currently being done…

The transition to technology education has been grounded in the dramatic changes that technology and technological innovations have brought to all aspects of society. Thus, the need arose to assure that all students have experience in technology education in order to acquire technological literacy. While there are many of models for technology…

Does new vocabulary help students to express existing ideas for which they do not yet have words or does it actually give them new ideas which they did not previously hold? James Woodcock asks whether offering students new vocabulary can give them new ideas, and whether this can enhance their historical analyses of causation problems. This is an…

"Research in the Teaching of English" (RTE) is the flagship research journal of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) in the United States. It is a broad-based, multidisciplinary journal composed of original research articles and short scholarly essays on a wide range of topics significant to those concerned with the…

Reflecting the work of Yetta Goodman on child language development, this paper examines Goodman's five "roots of literacy" and offers suggestions on classroom techniques for nurturing these roots. The first half of the paper explains how Goodman identified the roots of literacy and describes each of them, including (1) print awareness in…

As part of a project that identified the specific literacy skills required in ten occupations, this report provides two levels of instructional information about auto mechanics. Factual data are presented in Parts I and II for use in decision making by program developers, administrators, teachers, and counselors. These sections note the specific…

Noting that reading development is a crucial factor in breaking down social, intellectual, and political barriers, this paper uses Nigeria as an example of a developing multilingual country in order to examine the problems and challenges that learners and educators in multilingual societies face. The discussion is focused on children at the…

All sixth class pupils in 93 Irish primary schools were rated by their teachers as either having or not having problems related to literacy (in reading or writing). Teachers perceived 6.2% of pupils as being unable to cope with everyday demands in reading, while 6.6% were perceived as unable to cope with everyday demands in writing. A further 7%…

The Basic Occupational Literacy Test (BOLT) measures basic skills of educationally disadvantaged adults in four content areas: reading comprehension, reading vocabulary, arithmetic computation, and arithmetic reasoning. Alternate forms of each subtest are available at each of three or four levels of difficulty. The Wide Range Scale is used to…

The articles in this collection approach the question of what is fundamental in reading in a variety of ways. The topics covered in the 30 articles include the following: teaching and learning, structural imagination and professional staff development, Zen and the art of reading, learning and learning disabilities, Piaget and Hamlet, the political…