Business Computer Network (BCN) employs automatic calling and logon, multiple database access, disk search capture, and search assistance interfaces to provide single access to 15 online services. Telecommunications software (SuperScout) used to reach BCN and participating online services offers storage and message options and is accompanied by…

Discusses various aspects of scientific software, including evaluation and selection of commercial software products; program exchanges, catalogs, and other information sources; major data analysis packages; statistics and chemometrics software; and artificial intelligence. (JN)

Suggests that classroom teachers write their own instructional software and presents a step-by-step description of how one primary reading teacher wrote a program to help second graders learn to distinguish fact from opinion. (AEA)

Excerpted from the second chapter of the International Reading Association's "Computer Applications in Reading" (2nd ed.), this article presents an overview of computer-assisted reading programs developed on college campuses during the 1970s. (AEA)

Lists the ways that incorporating a programmable robot into an elementary school curriculum improves students' speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills. (AEA)

A software guide was developed to help special education classroom teachers evaluate educational technology. The manual's format includes a program matrix and color coded subject sections as well as spaces for reviewer feedback. (CL)

Describes how a microcomputer with a word processing program can be used efficiently to generate cloze tests, offering teachers an effective method of producing individualized materials for reading and language arts instruction. Examples of grammar worksheets focusing on proper nouns and adjectives, adjectives and adverbs, and plural words are…

Describes a computer program (for the IBM microcomputer) which simulates pulsatile events in the heart in time frames that approach the speed of physiological events. The program also simulates the experimental laboratory in which the mechanics of an isolated heart can be studied. (Author/JN)

Two computer programs that simulate the multiplier and accelerator processes are described. The simulations can be used in college-level economics classes or by pupils using their own personal computers at home. Very little knowledge of programing is required to implement the simulations. (Author/RM)

Presents the Reading Estimate Program, which follows the same procedure as the Raygor Estimate for determining readability. (CRH)

Describes how the word processor can be used for the creation of application and practice materials for reading comprehension in a learning station format. (CRH)

Describes the parallels between writing in English and LOGO in planning, audience awareness, and revision and gives guidelines for making students aware of these useful ideas. (CRH)

Reviews factors that have delayed use of expert system authoring tools in education and describes applications of two such tools--Expert-Ease and M.1.--to special education. Learning to use the tools, creating programs, and consulting the systems are the topics covered. Sources for further information on expert systems are provided. (MBR)

The application of probability concepts in tennis is described, with a computer program listing to generate service game probabilities. (MNS)

By the end of 1985, all secondary and almost all primary schools in the United Kingdom are expected to own one or more microcomputers. A critical examination of recent developments in these schools due to the introduction of the microcomputer is presented. (RM)