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Gray, Peter J. – 1984
This guide discusses three critical steps in selecting microcomputer software and hardware: setting the context, software evaluation, and managing microcomputer use. Specific topics addressed include: (1) conducting an informal task analysis to determine how the potential user's time is spent; (2) identifying tasks amenable to computerization and…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Software, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Thiessen, S. J. – 1984
The Alberta goverment has attempted to systematically address educational computing issues through programs of the provincial (K-12) education department (Alberta Education), which have included the development of computer literacy curricula for elementary, junior, and senior high schools; the Computer Technology Project (CTP); evaluation studies;…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computers, Courseware
Webster, Loraine; Wood, Robert W. – 1985
This report presents the results of a modified version of the 1983 Gallup Poll survey of parents of school-aged children in South Dakota. Parents of elementary and secondary school students were asked to grade the nation's and their state's schools and were surveyed on the following topics: their perceptions of the causes of discipline problems,…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Discipline, Educational Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education
Gray, Peter J. – 1984
Policy analysis is the process by which systematically collected information is provided to decision makers. As an integral part of a specific policy setting process and a comprehensive planned change process, such analyses can provide school administrators with much needed information to guide their decisions concerning district-wide…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Board of Education Policy, Change Strategies, Computer Literacy

Fothergill, Richard – British Journal of Educational Technology, 1987
Reviews the Microelectronics Education Programme (MEP) from the director's point of view, including the origins and basic structure of the program which ran for six years. The collaboration of teachers, advisers, and trainers is emphasized, research and evaluation procedures are discussed, and learning processes, computer studies, and distribution…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Science Education, Developed Nations, Educational Administration
McDermott, Brian G. – 1985
Responding to the Texas Education Agency's (TEA) "Essential Computing Competencies for Educators" (1983), the teacher's education program at Texas A&M University developed several computer literacy courses for its students. An evaluation was conducted of the first of these courses, "Microcomputer Literacy for Educators," to…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Correlation, Course Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Lai, Morris K. – 1984
This quantitative/qualitative evaluation of an 80-hour course integrating the SCOPE Computer Program in Mathematics and Science into the curriculum for students, grades 6-12, was conducted to: (1) provide immediate feedback to facilitate improvement of the program; (2) determine course effects; and (3) provide practitioners with an effective…
Descriptors: Action Research, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Core Curriculum