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Adhikarya, Ronny; Colle, Royal D. – 1983
This report describes the state-of-the-art of audio cassette technology (ACT) and reports findings from field tests, case studies, and pilot projects in several countries which demonstrate the potential of audio cassettes as a medium for communicating with rural people. Specific guidance is also offered on how a project can use cassettes as a…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Audiotape Cassettes, Case Studies, Costs
Goddard, Constance – 1983
This discussion of questions related to the most appropriate role for the computer in undergraduate postsecondary education begins by describing the Educational Testing Service's evaluations of two large-scale funded projects intended to stimulate the incorporation of computer assisted instruction (CAI) into undergraduate instruction--the…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers, Higher Education
Eastman, Susan Tyler – 1984
In a study designed to see how students accommodated a new technology, 27 eighth graders used a microcomputer in a middle school science class to access a commercial videotex service containing an electronic encyclopedia as part of an assignment to write a theme. Field observations of computer use and student interviews were used to collect data.…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Information Seeking, Information Sources, Intermode Differences
Minnick, D. R.; Steele, K. L. – 1977
Auto-tutorial instruction was compared to traditional lecture instruction in a university entomology course. In seven consecutive terms, undergraduate students enrolled in an introductory entomology course were divided into two groups: Group I received only lecture instruction on insect orders, while Group II was dismissed for three consecutive…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Course Evaluation, Educational Research, Entomology
Sewell, Edward H., Jr. – 1979
This study investigates the effects of cartoon illustrations on female and male college student comprehension and evaluation of information presented in several combinations of print, audio, and visual formats. Subjects were assigned to one of five treatment groups: printed text, printed text with cartoons, audiovisual presentations, audio only…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Audiovisual Aids, Cartoons, Cognitive Processes
Simutis, Zita M.; And Others – 1976
Forty-two enlisted men and women with no prior knowledge about electronics maintenance or logic diagrams participated in research designed to collect preliminary data on the training effectiveness of a problem solving computerized game for teaching electronics maintenance. Two games available on the University of Illinois PLATO Computer-Based…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Games
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Diem, Richard A. – 1979
An evaluation of a computer assisted educational (CAE) program using the PLATO system at a Texas detention center included an examination of attitudes and perceptions from (1) inmates participating and not participating in jail education programs, (2) trustees, (3) educational program staff, (4) chaplaincy staff, (5) guards assigned to the…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Attitudes, Basic Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction
Dixon, Nancy – 1978
It is hypothesized in this study that given an understanding of the educational value levels of students, instructors could modify their teaching methods to accommodate various levels reflected in their classes. Six value systems for both teachers and students are identified: (1) tradition oriented; (2) individualistic; (3) structured; (4)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Individual Differences, Interaction, Intermode Differences
Krannich, Caryl Rae – 1979
Ten college classes of speech communication students were used to examine the relationships among prior attitude, mode of presentation, and distortion of a high intensity (positive) persuasive communication. Three classes heard messages while four classes read messages. The remaining three classes were not exposed to messages and served as a…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Communication Research, Higher Education, Intermode Differences
Mayer, Richard E. – 1976
Eighty college students with no computer programing experience were the subjects of a study to determine the effects of the use of advanced organizers and subject control of instruction on performance. Students either received a logical or a scrambled sequence of instructional frames on computer programing, were either allowed to alter the order…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, College Students, Computer Science Education, Educational Research
Meyrowitz, Joshua – 1976
Eleven potential relationships exist among simultaneously presented messages in multi-image lectures. These are redundancy, cross-modality redundancy, generic/specific relationships, comparison/contrast, interaction of variables, parallel messages, analogical messages, temporal relationships, spatial relationships, generic concepts, and ideograms.…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Communications, Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Media
Salomon, Gavriel – 1975
Using 280 5th graders as subjects, an experiment was carried out to answer the following questions: (1) do certain indentified television formats have effects on cognition? (2) Is mastery of various cognitive skills correlated with extraction of knowledge from a television message which employs the corresponding format? It was hypothesized that:…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Television
Rowsey, Robert E. – 1974
The purpose of this study was to analyze two methods of instruction used in an animal biology course. One group of students, the experimental group, was taught using an audio-tutorial program, and another group, the control group, was taught using the conventional lecture-laboratory method. Pretest and posttest data were collected from achievement…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Audiovisual Centers, Audiovisual Instruction
Kennedy, Kyran – 1972
As educators become more interested in providing an environment and atmosphere which are conducive to independent learning and study activities, it is increasingly important that students be able to systematically coordinate their research skills in order to effectively use a centralized instructional materials center. To test the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Independent Study, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking
Sirc, Geoffrey; Bridwell-Bowles, Lillian – Collegiate Microcomputer, 1988
Discussion of the use of computers as research tools to analyze the writing process focuses on a microcomputer-based software program, Recording WordStar. Studies using the software are described, including comparisons of traditional writing methods with word processing methods and utilization of the software's ability to play back a composition…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Intermode Differences
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