Requiring a knowledge of the PLATO system and a command of the TUTOR language, this manual describes the format and the restrictions for the following TUTOR operations: (1) calculations; (2) data keeping; (3) judging responses; (4) presenting; (5) routing; and (6) sequencing. Within each section, relevant commands are defined, and restrictions are…

This manual provides instruction in the use of TUTOR, the computer language used in the PLATO computer based education system. A preliminary lesson and the first seven chapters introduce the basic features of the language, and later chapters provide a more comprehensive understanding of the concepts involved. The text explains how to use the…

A progress report of a study using computer assisted instruction (CAI) materials for an elementary course in accounting principles is presented. The study was based on the following objectives: (1) improvement of instruction in the elementary accounting sequence, and (2) help for transfer students from two-year institutions. The materials under…

The bibliography lists 78 references (1968-74) on the use of computers in education. Entries are listed in alphabetical order by author (or source) and usually include name of publisher, date, and length. (LS)

A macro system is implemented within the Coursewriter programing language. It is designed as a time-saving system to eliminate the repetitive coding of general routines. These routines, consisting of a series of instructions originally developed to handle one particular problem (or problem section), can, with little or no modification, be…

The problems examined during this investigation consisted of the development of data acquisition and instructional systems, (1) to collect reliable data to assess the management system's actual performance and its acceptability by trainees, (2) to manage a variety of available resources, (3) to schedule trainees' activities, and (4) to monitor…

Many programers still believe the method of programing recommended by B. F. Skinner and N. A. Crowder to be the only effective way to write a program. Recent research suggests, however, that this method may rest on faulty assumptions. The important points in programing seem to be defining behavioral objectives, analyzing the tasks necessary to…

Reported on is a study to develop a model for computer-assisted branched testing, measurement in which items are selected on the basis of previous responses and are thus tailored to the competencies of the examinee. The model was developed, implemented and evaluated in the context of an experimental school in Individually Prescribed Instruction…

In considering the development of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) systems over the past eleven years, one can see a pattern of interaction between advances in computer hardware and software and continuing efforts to solve the basic problems of CAI: problems of achieving a natural-language capability, of keeping the cost low, and of making…

Reported are the results of an experiment designed to test the effectiveness of computer use by junior college students in a calculus class. The primary objective involved the replacing of pencil and paper computations by a computer program output. The topical areas of investigation were limits, extrema, functional evaluation, and integration.…

The effects of behavioral objectives and/or rules on the learning process were examined using a hierarchical imaginary science called the Science of Xenograde Systems. The learning task was presented by a computer assisted instruction system to 130 introductory educational psychology and science education students. After being given a battery of…

A cybernetic subcomponent is proposed which can gather the necessary information and make the operating decisions to allow one system of instruction (M.D. Merrill's) to respond to and provide for differential needs within the individual learner. (Merrill's system divides the universe of instructional objectives into a taxonomy of seven categories,…

Individually Prescribed Instruction, the Automated Learning Management System, Computer Assisted Instruction, and the Interactive System are discussed in a general way in this paper that, nevertheless, describes the state of the art. Although these four developments, treated as four modes in the same process, are considered to be a major break…

The papers presented here are the result of the International Conference and Exhibition on Automation and Instrumentation held in Milan, Italy in 1968. Ranging from appraisals of the general situation of educational technology today to discussions of specific problems in the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union and Italy, to…

Grade six and seven students at South Hill Elementary School were involved in the study to evaluate computer-assisted instruction (CAI) in arithmetic. The pupils were divided into three groups: the members of the "Computer Group" each received five minutes of CAI in arithmetic per day in addition to regular arithmetic classes, the…