A program of multimedia courses for employees and customers in computer programing education makes training pay at Honeywell Information Systems. (Author)

The biostatistics course for undergraduate medical and dental students at the University of Connecticut Health Center is taught by the Keller Plan, and students can use computers to analyze data sets and to score their unit tests. The computer is an essential tool for data analysis and an attractive option for test scoring. (LBH)

Author discusses the idea of using student peers as instructional managers in individualized systems for programed instruction. (Author/HB)

Describes both the advantages and disadvantages of having a classroom computer. Diagnostic and prescriptive uses and some computer-system drawbacks are detailed. (BD)

The relative effectiveness of teaching methods using programmed instructional materials to teach musical percepts--phrase, theme, introduction, interlude, coda, binary form, ternary form, and rondo form--was studied. The 124 undergraduate elementary education majors used as subjects were found to be similar in aural perception, length of musical…

Textbooks emphasizing visual elements in exposition can be enriched using crisp, concise, audio-taped commentaries to focus attention on essential points in each illustration. These text aids, packaged in the convenient form of cassettes (usually one per chapter), have a number of obvious advantages: (1) any teacher can prepare them; (2) they are…

The techniques and effectiveness of systems for adjusting the pace, content, sequence, and style of instruction to fit the needs of individual learners are briefly reviewed. These systems are all designed to function in group instructional settings. They may be separated into print-oriented approaches (programmed instruction, personalized system…

A study investigated the effectiveness of self-instructional strategies in enhancing the word recognition skills of learning disabled elementary school children. Subjects were 30 students in learning disabilities resource rooms whose word recognition skills were at least one year below expectancy, as measured by a standardized reading test, and…

This study, illustrating how branch programing is conceived within the framework of linguistic theory, gives some insights on programing language material, specifying terminal objectives, and identifying the behavior by which achievement is measured. The model program described is an audio and motion film program with the main terminal objective…

TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT OF PUBLIC SCHOOL USE OF PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION, EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE CONDUCTED A QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY OF 126 SCHOOL SYSTEMS IN 44 STATES. IN 1960-61, THE FIRST YEAR OF REPORTED USE, 12 SCHOOL SYSTEMS WERE USING PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION. BY 1964-65 THIS USE HAD INCREASED EIGHT TIMES AND USE BY STUDENTS 20 TIMES.…

Five PLATO exercises on linear decision models were developed to investigate the feasibility of teaching material from operations research on the PLATO computer-based education system. The exercises were administered to business administration students enrolled in an introductory course in operations research. Each PLATO session was monitored to…

This twenty-eighth in a series of twenty-nine learning modules on instructional execution is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers help in developing the skills needed to plan for and use programmed instruction, either in the form of written texts or through teaching machines. Introductory sections relate the…