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Peer reviewedCicchelli, Terry; Baecher, Richard E. – Computers and Education, 1987
This study of 18 high school teachers focuses on personal dimensions of the change process and on teacher concerns about using microcomputers in the classroom. Stages of Concern Questionnaire and interviews were used to design a staff development model consisting of inservice activities that addressed teacher's concerns about computers.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Educational Change, Inservice Teacher Education
Price, Charles Alden; Stephens, Ruth Ann – 1984
This description of microcomputer use in schools within the East Texas School Study Council (ETSSC), a professional organization of 80 school districts, is based on 279 responses (66%) to a survey of 422 elementary and secondary school principals. Topics addressed include hardware and software available for educational use, microcomputing…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Computer Literacy, Computer Software, Financial Support
Brandes, Barbara G.; Padia, William L. – 1985
Findings from an evaluation of Teacher Education and Computer (TEC) Centers were presented. The California State Legislature authorized 15 TEC Centers to provide staff development services to teachers and administrators. Evaluation of the Centers focused on several policy issues in order to describe the major accomplishments of TEC Centers on a…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Continuing Education Centers, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Carl, David L.; And Others – 1986
The attitudes and perceptions of practicing nurses, student nurses, and nurse educators toward computerization of health care were assessed using questionnaires sent to two general hospitals and five nursing education programs. The sample consisted of 83 first-year nursing students, 84 second-year nursing students, 52 practicing nurses, and 26…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Attitudes, Computer Literacy, Computers
Peer reviewedStasz, Cathleen; Shavelson, Richard J. – AEDS Journal, 1985
Presents recommendations for the topics and organization of preservice and inservice teacher training activities based on (1) a literature review on staff development for computer-assisted instruction, and (2) on opinions of successful microcomputer-using teachers in elementary and secondary science and mathematics instruction. (31 references)…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Course Organization, Elementary Secondary Education
McManus, Jack; And Others – 1985
Case studies are presented for seven Los Angeles area (California) high schools that worked with Pepperdine University in the IBM/ETS (International Business Machines/Educational Testing Service) Model Schools program, a project which provided training for selected secondary school teachers in the use of personal computers and selected software as…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Software
Peer reviewedSwadener, Marc; Jarrett, Karen – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 1987
Discusses the results of a survey on the usage of computers in secondary schools. Indicates that the majority of use was by computer classes; more staff development is needed for teachers of non-computer classes; and there is insufficient hardware and software available for non-computer classes. (TW)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Science, Computer Uses in Education
Pelgrum, Willem J. – Prospects, 1992
Reports findings from the Computers in Education Study (COMPED) conducted in 1989 by the International Association for the Evaluation Achievement (IEA). Discusses problems associated with failure to adopt computers in schools, staff development, gender differences, and administrative use of computers in schools. (CFR)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Comparative Education, Computer Literacy, Computer Software
Northern Illinois Univ., De Kalb. Coll. of Continuing Education. – 1984
These proceedings consist of 28 presentations. They include, in alphabetical order by author, "Data Collection Methods Used to Determine Training Needs of the Organization and the Adult Learner in Business and Industry" (Bart P. Beaudin), "Sex and the Split Brain: Does the Sex of the Mind Matter?" (Anne A. Bowbeer),…
Descriptors: Adult Dropouts, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Agency Cooperation
