Based on the premise that the production strategy and the production approach have a strong impact on quality courseware development, a survey was conducted in 1987 to evaluate the development processes used for computer-assisted instruction curriculum materials. Questionnaires were sent to 64 institutions of higher education in England, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United States. There was a response rate of 50% for nonprofit institutions and 4.8% for profit organizations. Analyses of the data indicated that: (1) most of the respondents include concepts, ideas, and procedures of instructional (system) design in courseware development, but the procedures used have little in common; (2) most of the respondents utilize a team strategy for courseware development; (3) the respondents identified software engineering, the consideration of instructional and/or pedagogic concepts and ideas, and the production strategy as options that may discriminate between good and bad courseware; (4) the cyclic, iterative team strategy is regarded as appropriate by the respondents, most of whom reported no experience with other production systems; (5) respondents considered PASCAL, C, BASIC, machine/assembly language, and Logo to be the most important all-purpose languages for courseware development; (6) review and evaluation forms are the most important methods used by the respondents to determine software quality; and (7) the most important areas of software use after the natural sciences are economics and languages. The data are presented in 31 tables, and five references are provided. (RP)