The purpose was to develop and implement a strategy for organizing a curriculum into a system having explicit structural mediators of positive transfer from lower- to higher-order objectives. This was cast as a mathematical system, and three axioms were specified so that the system was characterized by composition and reversibility. A set of…

Evaluated was the impact of computer based resource units on teacher decision making and the teaching/learning process by analysis of 18 doctoral dissertations, a 1969 analysis of teacher reactions, and a continuing analysis of evaluation forms returned by teachers using the units (intended for normal and handicapped children). Among the findings…

A computer managed instructional system is described which could be used to support the multimedia, individualized course in economic analysis developed for the United States Naval Academy. Related documents are EM 010 787 through EM 010 823. The final report is ED 043 790 and the model developed for designing systems of individualized instruction…

An adaptive instructional strategy for individualized concept teaching was developed according to decision processes that adjust instructional variables to individual differences and differential performance, either before a task in response to an individual's traits or during a task in response to his current responses. An adaptive instructional…

Based on hypotheses on relationships between curiosity, anxiety, and performance, this study correctly predicted that high state curiosity students had lower levels of state anxiety and performed better in the computer-assisted instruction learning program than low state curiosity students. One hundred and fifty-two female undergraduates were…

This booklet provides the initial information necessary for school administrators who are considering the introduction or expansion of computer instruction in their school. The booklet contains a variety of non-technical information pertaining to the use of computers in instruction. It summarizes the hardware and software availability as well as…

Presented in this study are a number of laboratory projects typical of those found in a course on digital logic design. In addition, an attempt is made to fuse together the theoretical and practical aspects of logic design. It was the purpose of this study to present an experience in the requirements of a logic design laboratory to the interested…

It was hypothesized that one role of instructional objectives in learning is to serve as orienting stimuli so that the learner can decide which material to concentrate on and which to pay less attention to. With a brief text to learn, 58 college students received either one-half of the 24 objectives for the text, or no objectives at all. As…

For individualized or computer assisted instruction, norm referenced testing is inadequate to determine each individual's mastery on specific kinds of tasks. Hively's item forms and Ferguson's stratified item forms, both based on observable characteristics of the problems, and Scandura's algorithmic technology, positing that persons use rules to…

This paper reviews efforts which have been made to improve the effectiveness of teaching through the development of principles of programed teaching and the construction of teaching machines, concluding that a combination of computer technology and programed teaching principles offers an efficient approach to improving teaching. Three different…

This project represents the first year of a proposed two-year program to develop FEHR-PRACTICUM (Formative Evaluation and Heuristic Research), a computerized game which simulates experience in a research evaluation assistantship or practicum. In the game teams of from two to five players are given the task of finding the "best" among several…

Delay of feedback studies with animals or with tasks which are simple for human subjects have led to the common assertion that computer-assisted-instruction (CAI) systems should incorporate immediate feedback in order to maximize learning. However, studies using more complex learning tasks have suggested that delays of up to at least a day…

A Statistical Experiment Simulator (STEXSIM) has been developed which permits one to stimulate on a digital computer a wide range of experimental environments. As a teaching aid in applied statistics, it provides a means for an instructor to define a completely crossed factorial model with up to seven fixed or random main effects, three two-factor…

Systems of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) can be classified according to whether the author, student, or teacher controls the interaction between the student and the computer. Both author-controlled and student-controlled CAI have the advantages of individualized instruction, privacy for mistakes, and flexibility, but are tremendously…

A description of the first two quarters of the beginning physics course at the University of California at Irvine is given. Lectures, films, student-computer dialogues and weekly assignment sheets dealing with special problems are used with much student choice allowed. Computer dialogues are used for proof learning, remedial mathematics, and…