The 98 papers in this collection examine a wide variety of topics related to the latest technological developments as they apply to the educational process. Papers are grouped to reflect common, broad areas of interest, representing the instructional, administrative, and computer science divisions of the Association for Educational Data Systems (AEDS), a private, non-profit, international educational organization, which has the aim of providing a forum for the exchange of ideas and information about the relationship of modern technology to education. Included are lists of the 1983 Convention team, AEDS Board of Directors, Affiliate Group Presidents, Institutional Members of AEDS, Sustaining Members of AEDS, and an index of papers by author. Individual papers address such varied topics as the use of microcomputers for drills, tutorials, tests and word processing; developing instructional materials for the computer; modern approaches to learning to program; planning for computer acquisition; computer literacy in a multicultural environment; an attendance system for secondary schools; LOGO in the elementary classroom; programming plans and advance organizers and their uses in improving program debugging performance; setting up a computer program; and micro-assisted school management. (LMM)