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Strunk, Sandra J. – 1991
This handbook, developed for an adult learning center in Pennsylvania, uses word processing instruction on Apple IIe computers to promote student writing. The handbook was designed for use by adult basic education, General Educational Development, and English-as-a-Second-Language students who read at a fourth-grade level or higher. In the 15…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education
Hatherly, Vivian; Affholter, Tom – 1983
This individualized text was designed to lead students through a step-by-step course in text editing (word processing) using the TRS-80 Model III or IV. The program used in the course is a modification of SuperScripsit, to be printed out on an Epson printer. The text is organized into six sections covering the following topics: getting started,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software, Individualized Instruction
Van Dusseldorp, Ralph; And Others – 1984
Intended to serve as a guide to the development of basic computer competencies for students in teacher preparation programs or as inservice training for teachers, this primarily self-instructional manual provides basic information, worksheets, computer programs, and hands-on learning activities for 16 proficiencies related to computer literacy.…
Descriptors: Competence, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Managed Instruction
Bruce, Lucy – 1987
This volume is one of three in a self-paced computer literacy course that gives allied health students a firm base of knowledge concerning computer usage in the hospital environment. It also develops skill in several applications software packages. Volume I contains materials for a three-hour course. A student course syllabus provides this…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Behavioral Objectives, Community Colleges, Computer Literacy
Askov, Eunice N.; Brown, Emory J. – 1989
A study evaluated the effectiveness of the Templates for Literacy manual, which is designed to help the adult beginning reader integrate computer and literacy learning. The manual contains guidelines and strategies for incorporating word processing, spreadsheet, database, and graphics software into literacy curricula. The draft manual was…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction
Smith, Glenys – 1989
This guide offers suggestions for developing learning materials for self-instruction by adults. It is based on methods used in the Bristol (England) Open Learning Centre. The guide covers the following topics: (1) using open (self-instructional) materials with basic education students; (2) supplying support for instructional materials; (3)…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Autoinstructional Aids
Van Haalen, Teresa – 1990
A study investigated the writing strategies used by bilingual and monolingual students. Specifically, the study looked at field dependence vs. independence, possible differences in strategies employed by the two groups when using a word processor, the effects of strategy on the types of revisions made, and the types of revisions and cognitive…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
Oregon State Dept. of Education, Salem. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1990
This document is intended to help Oregon district-level curriculum planners, teachers, regional coordinators, and department of education staff plan programs to meet the entry-level needs of office support workers and to prepare students for a postsecondary learning experience. The instructional program is described in terms of goals, approval…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Competency Based Education, Course Content, Curriculum Development
Yau, Maria; And Others – 1990
Fifty-six Toronto (Ontario, Canada) seventh-grade and eighth-grade learning-disabled students whose handwriting was very difficult to read were randomly assigned to either an experimental or comparison group. Experimental group students were loaned a portable computer to use freely at school and at home during the course of the experiment.…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Foreign Countries, Handwriting, Instructional Effectiveness
Uthe, Elaine F. – 1982
Communications technology must advance to meet the need for improved information processing by the year 2000. Four major technologies are involved: computers and data processing, telecommunications and telephones, reprographics, and word processing. Each of the technologies shows growth in sales, applications, and usage. Facts and projections…
Descriptors: Communications, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Computers
Pedersen, Elray L. – 1987
To determine how much electronic writing-analysis programs can offer college students and how valuable computerized text actually is, nine college student essays and nine professional essays were analyzed using text editors. The student essays (three each rated "superior,""average," and "failed") and the professional…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Educational Technology
Kurth, Ruth J.; Kurth, Lila M. – 1987
A study was conducted in which word processing and voice synthesis were used to teach beginning writing skills to kindergarten and first grade students. Subjects, 46 children from two elementary schools enrolled in an early education summer school class in writing, were randomly divided into three groups. One group was taught writing using a…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperation
Strauss, Andre – 1986
A technique designed to make the classroom use of videotapes for second language teaching for specific purposes more efficient is described. The technique begins with a classroom review of basic vocabulary and structures, which is then tested with a computer exercise. A second stage requires discussion and memorization of vocabulary and phrases…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction, Discovery Learning, English for Special Purposes
College and Univ. Personnel Association, Washington, DC. Management Information Systems Council. – 1986
The status of personnel systems at 370 public and private colleges in 1985 is described, based on a College and University Personnel Association survey. Responding schools were classified as two-year, four-year, universities (doctoral-granting institutions), and other (law, medical, and theological schools). For each institutional classification,…
Descriptors: Business, Computer Software, Computers, Fringe Benefits
Wright, P.; Valbonesi, P. – 1985
This report comprises a detailed evaluation of three IBM microcomputer-based school information management systems: Student Information and Records System (SIRS) by Management Information Group, The School System (TSS) by Columbia Computing Services, and Computer Educational Management Accounting System (CEMAS) by Computerlib. These three systems…
Descriptors: Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Software, Data Processing, Databases
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