This article acquaints business educators with the equipment, terminology, and the wide range of applications microcomputers have in business education programs. Areas examined include hardware, software, computer-assisted instruction (drill and practice, simulation, and tutorial), computer-managed instruction, and word processing. (CT)

Describes research conducted at the University of Texas that designed, programed, tested, and evaluted three CAI (computer-assisted instruction) modules for stimulating rhetorical invention within the freshman English composition setting. Experimental procedures, findings, and implications are discussed. (Author/JD)

Urges librarians involved in library user instruction to meet the challenges preented by the growing role of computers in bibliographic systems. (FM)

A study was undertaken to determine whether PLATO would be used by the medical students at Mercer University and whether attitudes toward this type of computer-assisted instruction would prove generally positive; results indicated that students did utilize the system and that this use generated an overall favorable attitude. References are listed.…

Ten retarded children (9 to 14 years old) participated in a training program to help them acquire the ability to conserve number. At the end of the training program, and nine weeks later, a significant number of students in the training group acquired the ability to conserve number. (Author)

Argues that microcomputers are inexpensive, reliable, and sufficiently powerful to meet important educational demands, and that with authoring/driver systems educators could make far greater use of what is known about cognitive processes, especially structural learning. (MER)

Acquaints the reader with the personal computer, emphasizing its use as an aid in the learning process; considers the types of hardware available and software related to educational uses; and offers advice to those just entering this area. (Author)

Considers the characteristics of computer based learning (CBL) which have caused it to attract so much attention from evaluators, gives an overview of current approaches to evaluation, and raises questions about what services in CBL are being required of evaluators and how they might best be achieved. (Author/CMV)

Practical experience has shown that computer aided design programs can provide an invaluable aid in the learning process when integrated into the syllabus in lecture and laboratory periods. This should be a major area of future development of computer assisted learning in engineering education. (Author/CMV)

Describes computer assisted learning (CAL) packages written in FORTRAN IV and developed for use in a degree course in civil engineering dealing with hydraulics and structures. All are used in the interactive mode through a terminal with a keyboard and visual display unit. (Author/CMV)

A description is given of a method of teaching the case method, perfected by Harvard Business School, using interactive computing. (MK)

A computer-assisted test construction system is described and discussed. The author offers the software to interested readers. (MK)

Used data collected during the semester to examine two issues concerned with computer assisted instruction in economics: What factors determined student usage of the lessons and what factors caused variation in student evaluation of the helpfulness of the lessons. (Author/IRT)

Discusses the Computer-Assisted Instruction Project, under the auspices of the All Indian Pueblo Project, designed to help elementary Pueblo students to develop better reading skills through culturally relevant reading and the cloze technique. (RAO)

Presents the technical details of the hardware and software used with two kinds of computers, the Radio Shack TRS-80 and the Apple II, in developing personalized computer-assisted instruction with the addition of the instructor's voice interfaced with the computer. Programing controls for this interface are listed. (RAO)