Differences between interactive microcomputer and traditional verbal learning groups in a paired-associate learning task were examined in this study. The 88 subjects, who were undergraduate education students, were randomly assigned to four groups. Each group was given one of two lists of ten high frequency words matched with either high or low…

The costs, effects, and utility of mathematics instruction supplemented by microcomputer presentations were compared with those of traditional classroom approaches for grades 3 and 5. The study was completed at a single school in a rural area of Saskatchewan, Canada, where two classrooms at each grade level were used in a pretest-posttest design.…

The historical traditions, organizational structures, funding, and public and academic esteem of the correspondence school and the campus-based regional college are all very different. Nevertheless, the relationship of the two institutions in Norway illustrates that they can form an association that is advantageous to both. Norway's largest…

This report profiles the development, implementation, and evaluation of an interactive videodisc-based (IVD) program, Physical Sciences: Discovery through Interactive Technology. Developed by the Texas Learning Technology Group (TLTG), the program is a comprehensive, 160-hour, two-semester curriculum for secondary school students that integrates…

This study ascertained whether or not computer assisted instruction (CAI) enhanced the quality of the educational experience and resulted in increased learning. The study involved the teaching of a 3-week instructional unit on population genetics and evolutionary processes to advanced placement biology students. The control group (N=38) received…

The study, involving 53 students from the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, investigated the relevance of certain aptitude-by-treatment interaction findings with normally hearing students to the instruction of hearing impaired students. Instructional variables investigated were classroom structure and student participation. Student…

This study attempted to determine if students learn science concepts better when laboratories are used to verify concepts already intorduced through lectures and textbooks (verification laboratories or whether achievement and retention are improved when laboratories are used to introduce new concepts (directed discovery learning laboratories). The…

The purpose of this study was to ascertain if an online computer tutorial on diabetes mellitus, supplemented to traditional classroom lecture, is an effective tool in the education of nutrition students. Students completing a web-based tutorial as a supplement to classroom lecture displayed greater improvement in pre- vs. post-test scores compared…

This paper examines the goals of education which should include the transmission of knowledge, training of skills necessary in a technological society, training of intellectual/abstractive capacities, autonomy and flexibility, and healthy personal and interpersonal functioning. The author argues that a process-oriented classroom approach is more…

This presentation discusses research on the effects of adult- and self-instruction on the performance of a picture grouping task by black children in primary and elementary school. Kindergarten children and first-, fifth- and sixth-grade students were shown pictures that could be divided into four sets. Within each set the pictures were similar in…

COLLEGE CLASSROOM CONDITIONS WHICH ADVANCE OR IMPEDE STUDENT ABILITY IN COGNITIVE ANALYSIS AND/OR SYNTHESIS BY THOUGHT AND PERCEPTION WERE EXPLORED. TWO BASIC COMPARISONS WERE MADE--(1) INDIVIDUAL VERSUS GROUP MEMORIZATION AND PROBLEM SOLVING USING POOLING-OF-ABILITIES MODELS AND (2) THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PROGRAMS VERSUS CONVENTIONAL INSTRUCTIONAL…

RELATIVELY ABLE, WELL-MOTIVATED COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATES AND GRADUATES WERE ASSIGNED AT RANDOM TO 3 GROUPS AND TAUGHT FORTRAN PROGRAMING BY COMPUTER, PROGRAMED TEXT (LINEAR TYPE) AND CONVENTIONAL TEXT. GOAL OF THE COURSE WAS TO USE THE COMPUTER TO ACHIEVE INTELLIGENT INDIVIDUALIZATION OF INSTRUCTION BASED ON EACH STUDENT'S PERFORMANCE.…

Developed by a Pennsylvania school district for grades seven and eight, this guide is one of two documents outlining an English program and emphasizes capitalization, punctuation, parts of speech, sentence patterns, usage, and literature. For each grade level and topic, the guide lists the program objectives, instructional objectives,…

Current literature indicates a growing interest in the development of individualized, self-paced, learning systems within community college courses in order to accommodate the differing learning abilities of non-traditional students. To assess student preferences for such instruction as opposed to traditional, lecture/discussion teaching, an…

TO DETERMINE WHETHER ONE PROGRAMED VISUAL PRESENTATION MODE FACILITATES LEARNING BY CLARIFYING ASSUMED AMBIGUITIES IN VERBAL PRESENTATIONS AND WHETHER LEARNING TIME AFFECTS ACHIEVEMENT, FIVE CRITERIA WERE SPECIFIED--DRAWING, IDENTIFICATION (TRANSFER), TERMINOLOGY, COMPREHENSION, AND A COMPOSITE OF THESE. ALTHOUGH KNOWLEDGE PRE-TEST SCORES WERE…