The Graduate Logistics program of the United States Air Force (USAF) Institute of Technology has required that prospective students show a satisfactory level of competence in basic accounting procedures before entering the program. The purpose of this thesis was to develop accounting case problems for use with the CREATE computer system that would…

A minicomputer-based computer-assisted instructional (CAI) system was designed at the University of Texas Medical Branch in an attempt to lower both the excessive hardware costs and the inordinate amount of time required for the preparation of each hour of instructional material associated with traditional CAI systems. A prototype system with an…

The University of Texas Medical Branch developed a minicomputer-based computer-assisted instruction (CAI) system which employed a teacher oriented software package called CAISYS-8, consisting of a highly modularized teaching compiler and operating system. CAISYS-8 used instructional quanta which generalized the flow of information to and from the…

Based on a nationwide survey of secondary schools (sponsored by NSF), the study describes the extent and degree of computer use for both administrative and instructional purposes. In covering instructional applications, the study also includes statistics on the nature and purpose of computer use; type of source and level of support; school…

Effects of trait and state anxiety levels (low, medium, high), response mode (reading, constructed response), and program length (short, long) on performance for familiar and technical computer-assisted instruction materials were investigated. High trait anxiety was associated with high levels of state anxiety. Constructed response groups had…

An experimental comparison between fixed sequence (FS) and branching versions of two computer-assisted instruction lessons in basic electronics is described in this report. It was shown that the FS versions provided minimum opportunities for branching. In contrast, the branching version utilized a combination of branching applications, including…

Conjugate reinforcement is a new attention measure which has emerged from experimental psychology. It can provide accurate measurement of a subject's attention to a stimulus. In conjugate reinforcement, the duration of the stimulus varies directly and immediately with the subject's rate of response. In this process, the subject must demonstrate…

The first prototype for a teaching experiment at a U. S. Air Force technical training school are described in this report from the Educational Technology Program at M.I.T.'s Lincoln Laboratory. The terminals are part of the hardware for the Lincoln Training System (LTS), combining audiovisual and computer-aided instruction. The report states that…

The report describes hardware and software development for Lincoln Training System #3 (LTS-3) at M.I.T.'s Lincoln Laboratory. The report provides specifications of an LTS-3 student console, and describes refinements of LTS-3 teaching techniques and lesson materials resulting from a test of the system at a U. S. Air Force technical training school.…

Information from many different sources related to the use of computers in instruction, particularly computer-assisted instruction (CAI), is provided in this bibliography: journal articles, books, articles from edited books, and technical reports or memos. Each of the 835 entries contains title, year and place of publication, often the number of…

Four new Project Solo modules are presented. A module on computer graphing with an x-y plotter explains the format for input to the computer, demonstrates the effect of scaling, and gives several on-line exercises to produce graphs. Several student-written programs in elementary and advanced mathematics, French, and U.S. history show how peer…

An interactive computer-assisted system for teaching elementary logic is described, which was designed to handle formalizations of first-order theories suitable for presentation in a computer-assisted instruction environment. The system provides tools with which the user can develop and then study a nonlogical axiomatic theory along whatever lines…

A computer program, designed for use in the second quarter of the beginning course for science and engineering majors at the University of California, Irvine, simulates an experimental investigation of a pulse in a rope. A full trial run is given, in which the student's problem is to discover enough about the disturbance of the rope to answer…

The study of macroeconomics--the determination and control of aggregative variables such as gross national product, unemployment and inflation--may be facilitated by the use of a computer simulation policy game. An aggregative model of the economy was constructed and programed for a computer and (hypothetical) historical data were generated. The…

In September 1975, the Computer Curriculum Corporation's computer assisted instruction program was instituted at the Scranton State School for the Deaf in Scranton, Pennsylvania. A minicomputer and 20 teletype terminals were installed. Drill and practice programs in elementary level math, reading and language arts were initiated. Teachers'…