Responding to the Texas Education Agency's (TEA) "Essential Computing Competencies for Educators" (1983), the teacher's education program at Texas A&M University developed several computer literacy courses for its students. An evaluation was conducted of the first of these courses, "Microcomputer Literacy for Educators," to determine whether the course met the needs of individual students with differing entry level skills and prior experience, and whether it satisfied TEA's guidelines for computer competence. Demographic and computer experience data were collected through a survey of 23 students enrolled in the course during the summer of 1984; student performance data were obtained by matching the results of each pretest and posttest item with the appropriate areas of competencies identified by TEA. Analysis of the data indicated that: (1) students who had not had any previous experience with computers improved their scores from the pretest to the posttest; (2) entering students scored relatively high (an average of 3.7 out of 5) on the attitude assessment section of the pretest, but scored only slightly higher (4.3) on the posttest; and (3) students who reported being able to type 50 words/minute or better did not show a substantial improvement in scores from the pretest to the posttest. It was concluded that although the course did include all of the computer competencies that TEA had outlined it did not appear to have made a difference in key programming skills. Four conclusions and recommendations are included as well as two references. (JB)