The Statistical Analysis System (SAS) has been used to program power calculations for the independent samples Hotellings T squared. Three programs have been prepared to accommodate variations in the information that may be available to do the power analysis. (Author/SLD)

The information overload in learning and teaching scenarios is a main hindering factor for efficient and effective learning. New methods are needed to help teachers and students in dealing with the vast amount of available information and learning material. Our approach aims to utilize contextualized attention metadata to capture behavioural…

The poster child for the Web 2.0 movement, the wiki, demonstrates the spirit of open content more clearly than any other application. Wikipedia, the most famous wiki and the world's largest encyclopedia, defines a wiki as a Web site that "allows visitors to add, remove, edit, and change content." Even though it is a controversial information…

A study was made of existing methods of dealing with the initial articles (a, an, the) of several languages in computerized catalog records. A new strategy is suggested to reduce the error rate. (LS)

The analytical capabilities of ONPASS, an on-line computer-aided school facility planning system, are described by its developers. This report describes how, using the Canoga Park-Winnetka-Woodland Hills Planning Area as a test case, the Department of City Planning of the city of Los Angeles employed ONPASS to demonstrate how an on-line system can…

Claimed advantages, possible drawbacks, and economic implications of computer based learning systems are presented in this state of the art report for Great Britain. Specific areas considered include: the potential uses of computers for education, computer based learning systems, the physical bases of the system hardware and software, the…

A study was devised to develop a computer-based model for maximizing both the feedback of an administrative simulation exercise and the analysis of the results. The development of the model used in the analysis and feedback of in-basket simulation materials consisted of three phases: instrumentation (identification of items, courses of action, and…

Describes a model conceived as an aid to the designer of serials management systems for structuring the serial arrival prediction, check-in, and claiming functions of these systems. The model is described with examples of its application to known serial issue arrival cases in a table of examples. (Author)

A method is described for computerizing assignments in electrical engineering courses which removes certain objections to traditional non-computerized assignments. (Author/RAO)

Authoring systems are defined as tools used by an educator to translate intents and purposes from his head into a computer program. Alternate ways of preparing code are examined and charts of these coding formats are displayed. (Author/RAO)

Two programs are described which have been used successfully to solve the assistant/teaching assignment scheduling problem in a large teaching department at a State University. (Author)

Provides an overview of the Rexx programing language and presents a sample utility program to illustrate the advantages of the Rexx language as an alternative to Basic. Eight references are listed. (MES)

Workstations are microprocessor-based desktop computers with the hardware architecture of superminicomputers, combining virtual memory with sophisticated operating systems, communications protocols, advanced languages, and high-resolution graphics. The development of workstations and their uses in scientific environments are discussed. (JN)