A look at a new computer procedure recently developed at Wisconsin Information System for Education (WISE), which holds potential for substantially reducing the amount of time spent in salary negotiations. (Author)

A look at Moraine Valley Community College's data bank for systematically gathering, reporting and updating community socioeconomic data for occupational program planning and counseling. (Author)

Paper describes how parameters are defined, transformed and weighted for purposes of practical equipment maintenance training, and how the resultant training tasks configured a Training Computer Exerciser. (Author)

This annotated bibliography is divided into four sections. Section 1 offers a nonannotated listing from two earlier bibliographies, compiled in 1970. Section 2 provides a list of references to specific computer-assisted counseling systems. Section 3 consists of publications which have surveyed the domain of computer-assisted counseling and…

The computer readability editing system described in this report was developed to serve as an author's aid in improving the ease of comprehending Navy technical manuals and training materials. The system has features to (1) flag uncommon and misspelled words and long sentences, (2) suggest simple replacements for difficult words and phrases, and…

This paper provides an evaluative framework to clarify the similarities and differences in five purposes for which a computer may be used to aid instruction. Each purpose implies its own method of evaluation and each has a different set of effectiveness measures that highlight its unique value. The first four involve adding new skills or knowledge…

OPERATIONAL EFFECTS OF AIRBORNE EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ON ULTRAHIGH FREQUENCY (UHF) TELEVISION ASSIGNMENTS ON LAND WERE INVESTIGATED. SPECIFICALLY, THE EFFORT RELATED TO EXPANSION PLANS OF THE MIDWEST PROGRAM ON AIRBORNE TELEVISION INSTRUCTION (MPATI). PREVIOUS STUDIES BY THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS (NAEB) LED TO THE…

A TECHNICAL REPORT WAS PREPARED COVERING THE IMPACT OF AIRBORNE TELEVISION TRANSMISSION ON LAND-BASED UHF TELEVISION ASSIGNMENT PLANS. THE REPORT RELATED TO THE PROPOSED EXPANSION PLANS OF THE MIDWEST PROGRAM ON AIRBORNE TELEVISION INSTRUCTION (MPATI). EARLIER STUDIES BY THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS (NAEB) HAD LED TO THE…

A Title III ESEA study sought to determine the feasibility of establishing a central data processing service by the Wabash Valley Education Center for its member schools. First, current applications of data processing in education were reviewed to acquire detailed specifications for an educational data processing center's hardware, software, and…

In a test of three computer models to simulate group decisions, data were used from 31 American and Austrian groups on a total of 307 trials. The task for each group was to predict a series of answers of an unknown subject on a value-orientation questionnaire, after being given a sample of his typical responses. The first model, used the mean of…

The concept of "explanation" is the focus of this study and of the working computer programs contained in it. The advent of the computer makes it possible to bring to bear on the art of explanation a vast information handling power. In the first sections, a definition of explanation, its differentiation from related subjects, and the more than 50…

A common approach to needs analysis involves the development of a self-report questionnaire administered to members of the intended audience. Such an approach poses a problem however: Concern for data reliability demands polling as many respondents as possible, while concern for cost-effectiveness dictates minimizing the size of the sample. The…