While the future of education will undoubtedly be intimately tied to the computer, there is still considerable doubt regarding the mode of operation and the kind of relationship which should exist. Among the implications for teacher education are these: Prospective teachers need to gain part of their own liberal arts and professional education…

Assuming no previous experience with computers, this primer is designed to help students, teachers, scientists, and other scholars to learn how to use the NEWBASIC/CATALYST system (NBS). The primer contains nine sections: (1) instructions for establishing contact with the computer (logging on); (2) examples and problems to lead the student through…

Covering instructional simulation systems, this bibliography attempts to list the latest available references, and includes references not only to simulation but to other pertinent topics (such as instructional systems design, computer-assisted instruction, and programed instruction) that might help the reader design his own simulation system. The…

This study attempted to produce a dynamic decision model for an ongoing learning situation presented via computer-assisted instruction (CAI). In addition to student performance on learning frames, criterion frames, and quiz items, the study was concerned with additional learning variables such as latencies for each of the above measures, and the…

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…