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Rossett, Allison – Journal of Instructional Development, 1982
Reviews needs assessment history and extant techniques and offers a model for generating needs assessments based upon five general purposes of front-end analysis and their corresponding types of items--problem finding; problem selecting; knowledge/skill proving; finding feelings; and cause finding. Thirty-three sources are appended. (EJS)
Descriptors: Classification, Curriculum, Educational Needs, Instructional Development
Becker, Lee A. – Programmed Learning and Educational Technology, 1987
Presents and develops a general model of the nature of a learning system and a classification for learning systems. Highlights include the relationship between artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology; computer-based instructional systems; intelligent instructional systems; and the role of the learner's knowledge base in an intelligent…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Classification, Cognitive Psychology, Computer Assisted Instruction
Donald, Janet G. – 1984
Methods of optimizing instruction through the use of course knowledge portrayal methods were studied, based on a series of experiments conducted over 6 years. Sixteen university courses in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities were investigated through the application of cognitive theory to instruction. Attention was first focused on…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Ability, College Instruction, Concept Formation
Peer reviewedNahl-Jakobovits, Diane; Jakobovits, Leon A. – Research Strategies, 1992
Describes a method of developing user-based objectives for bibliographic instruction that utilizes content analysis to code self-reports by library users according to a taxonomy of library speech acts in the affective, cognitive, and sensorimotor domains. Analysis of one student's library reports and translation of the analysis into enabling…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Behavioral Objectives, Case Studies, Classification
Komulainen, Erkki, Ed.; Kansanen, Pertti, Ed. – 1981
Three papers exploring facets of the teaching process are presented in this report. The papers are part of the Didactic Process Analysis (DPA) Helsinki research project. The DPA research team, composed of educators investigating instructional processes, has, since 1967, examined taxonomies and classifications of teaching processes. The first…
Descriptors: Classification, Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Decision Making
Pan, Alex C. – 1999
Having a good command over basic computer applications is essential for teachers to integrate technology in school. Teachers should learn how to maximize the power of computers for their teaching and administrative work. This paper focuses on some effective approaches that can help teachers learn to use computer applications successfully. First,…
Descriptors: Classification, Comparative Analysis, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Hofmeister, Alan M.; Ferrara, Joseph M. – 1986
The research project investigated whether expert system tools have become sophisticated enough to be applied efficiently to problems in special education. (Expert systems are a development of artificial intelligence that combines the computer's capacity for storing specialized knowledge with a general set of rules intended to replicate the…
Descriptors: Articulation Impairments, Artificial Intelligence, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Problems


