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Peer reviewedCollis, Betty; Martinez, Michael E. – NASSP Bulletin, 1989
Based on data from two national surveys of U.S. and Canadian eleventh-grade students, this article reviews findings concerning computer literacy, computers' integration with curricula, and gender equity. Recommendations stress the importance of curriculum evaluation, inservice training, and teachers' use of computers. Includes eight references.…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Curriculum Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Grade 11
Collis, Betty – Computing Teacher, 1985
Summarizes results of a study measuring eighth- and twelfth-grade students' attitudes toward computers. Sex and age differences, computer literacy course impact, and correlation of student attitudes toward computers and mathematics and science are assessed. A table giving means and standard deviations of responses to survey items is included. (MBR)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Computer Literacy, Correlation, Grade 12
Download full textCollis, Betty; Muir, Walter – 1984
The first of four major sections in this report presents an overview of the background and evolution of computer applications to learning and teaching. It begins with the early attempts toward "automated teaching" of the 1920s, and the "teaching machines" of B. F. Skinner of the 1940s through the 1960s. It then traces the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedCollis, Betty; Anderson, Ron – Computers in the Schools, 1994
A historical background and current assessment of computer uses in education is presented with specific emphasis on student achievement in computer literacy and international applicability of objectives from stage two of the Computers in Education Study (COMPED). The COMPED Study involves a cross-cultural examination of how information…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education, Cross Cultural Studies
Peer reviewedCollis, Betty – Education and Computing, 1985
Discusses worldwide inequities in computer education based on gender, socioeconomic level, country of residence, and specific school policies, and their resultant consequences. Concerns about these inequities are formulated and recommendations for reducing the scale of the problem are made. (Author/MBR)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Computer Literacy, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
Collis, Betty; And Others – 1988
The interactions between computer use and access by adolescents and their computer-related opinions and values are presented in the framework of a "manifold model" of computer interactions. This model emphasizes the complexity and multidimensional nature of the system of variables in which such interaction is embedded. For this study,…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Computer Literacy, Developed Nations, Equal Education
Collis, Betty; Muir, Walter – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 1986
A national survey examined the extent of offerings of courses on the uses of computers in instruction by education faculties. Results showed extensive offerings in both undergraduate and graduate programs, but considerable diversity in content and sequence and no consistency in requirements for computer-related experience before certification.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Science, Curriculum Design
