The bewildering number of available terminals which are offered to CAI users presents a rather formidable problem of which one to choose. This article surveys what appear to be evolving standards for terminals. The usefulness of these terminals for CAI purposes is discussed, together with the best known prototype exhibiting the particular feature.…

This paper focuses on two major issues in the third stage of the implementation and dissemination process for computer based instruction (CBI)--copyright and documentation. The purpose, special problems, and different approaches or methods of copywriting and documenting CBI materials are discussed. Tables outline the types of information required…

Computers are intrinsically fascinating to students once they learn what materials are available and become familiar with working on the terminals. The Plato Health Science Network contains an extensive catalog of lessons of interest to medical students and is available to anyone on request; this has resulted in several hundred hours per week of…

Time, space, money, and educational opportunities were the four major factors considered in upgrading the individual teaching labs at the University of Florida. The program incorporates the use of single processor microcomputers to teach a variety of courses. Software developed for a course on cognition and perception will set up a ready to run…

Students in four freshman composition classes participated in a study to discover if computer assisted instruction (CAI) could be designed, developed, and programed that would effectively stimulate students' inventive processes. A computer was programed with questions drawn from Aristotles' enthymeme topics. Students in the experimental sections…

This paper provides an evaluative framework to clarify the similarities and differences in five purposes for which a computer may be used to aid instruction. Each purpose implies its own method of evaluation and each has a different set of effectiveness measures that highlight its unique value. The first four involve adding new skills or knowledge…

This paper presents the notion of a "question episode," the smallest complete unit of computer- student interaction in computer assisted instruction, and describes such important elements as question types, student input, interpretation of student inputs, computer replies, and duration limits. Included are some guidelines to help determine the…

PROJECT GOALS WERE TO TRAIN BIOLOGY TEACHERS IN THE TECHNIQUES OF INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY, INCLUDING WRITING OF COMPUTER-ASSISTED LEARNING (CAL) BIOLOGY SEQUENCES, TO DEVELOP PROTOTYPE CAL SEQUENCES FOR INSERVICE EDUCATION, AND TO CONDUCT A DEVELOPMENT FIELD TEST OF THESE MATERIALS. A PRELIMINARY STUDY USING 7 BIOLOGY TEACHERS PROVIDED THE…

THIS REPORT DESCRIBES THE PROJECTS IN COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION CONDUCTED AT THE STANFORD LABORATORY FOR COMPUTER-ASSISTED LEARNING AND TEACHING AND AT THE STANFORD-BRENTWOOD COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION (CAI) LABORATORY. THE MAJOR ACTIVITIES, WHICH ARE REPORTED FOR THE PERIOD FROM APRIL 1 TO JUNE 30, 1967, ARE (1) READING AND MATHEMATICS AT…

THE LINC COMPUTER PROVIDES A PARTICULAR SCHEDULE OF REINFORCEMENT FOR BEHAVIORAL EXPERIMENTS BY EXECUTING A SEQUENCE OF COMPUTER OPERATIONS IN CONJUNCTION WITH A SPECIALLY DESIGNED INTERFACE. THE INTERFACE IS THE MEANS OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE EXPERIMENTAL CHAMBER AND THE COMPUTER. THE PROGRAM AND INTERFACE OF AN EXPERIMENT INVOLVING A PIGEON…

THIRTEEN TEACHERS USED COMPUTER ASSISTED INSTRUCTION TO WRITE AND STORE THEIR OWN PROGRAMS OF COURSE WORK IN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION. ALTHOUGH TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES AND TIME DELAYS WERE ENCOUNTERED, IT WAS CONCLUDED THAT MOST OF THE TEACHERS BENEFITTED FROM THIS INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER ASSISTED INSTRUCTION. (LH)

A study was conducted in the School of Medical Technology at the University of Illinois to determine the relative learning effectiveness of lessons taught by means of computer assisted instruction (in this case, PLATO) versus lessons taught by means of paper copies adapted from the PLATO system. While the benefits of translating paper…

Model building techniques from Artifical Intelligence and Information-Processing Psychology are applied to human-computer interface tasks to evaluate existing interfaces and suggest new and better ones. The model is in the form of an augmented transition network (ATN) grammar which is built by applying grammar induction heuristics on a sequential…

THE EFFECT OF ADAPTIVE VERSUS NONADAPTIVE TRAINING UPON PEROFRMANCE IN A VISUAL TARGET DETECTION TASK WAS INVESTIGATED. ADAPTIVE TRAINING WAS NOT FOUND TO BE SUPERIOR TO NONADAPTIVE TRAINING. BUT INCREASING TASK DIFFICULTY IN AN ARBITRARY STEPWISE FASHION WAS MORE EFFECTIVE THAN MAINTAINING A CONSTANT LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY. THIS DOCUMENT, AD 634…

Effective instructional organization and sequences cannot be generated without analyzing and interpreting diagnostic information. Currently the teacher is required to provide the analysis and interpretation as well as the instruction. Class loads and time limitations preclude anything other than the cursory examination of data. In order to…