The anxiety or confidence that teachers display towards computers and other new technologies is a subject which should be of prime importance to teacher educators and educational technologists. Many teachers feel ill-prepared and resist the integration of computers and other technologies into their instruction. Since 1976 there has been a growing…

Although the Congress of the United States has enacted legislation calling for a conversion to the metric system by October 1992, recent government reports suggest that the country may not be prepared to meet that deadline. In an effort to develop a learning module for instructing community college students in the application of the metric system,…

This book presents 16 papers on problems and innovations in postsecondary engineering education. An introduction discusses the major issues currently facing engineering education. Chapter 2 briefly reviews the papers which are grouped under topics. Three of thee papers comment on teaching non-technical matters and attitudes. Two papers point out…

The purpose of this monograph is to provide useful guidelines for teachers and to review findings in the literature with respect to the positive instructional value of computers in the classroom. Following an introduction, research findings are organized into seven topics: (1) Availability and Use: past availability and use, current availability…

The monograph reports on two surveys conducted by the Open University (United Kingdom) to evaluate the likely consequences of the university's new home computing policy (which requires access to a microcomputer for certain courses) on students with disabilities. A telephone survey was taken of 23 disabled students, and questionnaires were…

This document brings together eight papers presented at a rehabilitation technology conference, authored by individuals affiliated with the Trace R & D Center on Communication, Control and Computer Access for Handicapped Individuals. Titles and authors of the papers are as follows: "Current Initiatives in Accessible Computing" (Jane Berliss);…

In recent years there has been a dramatic increase in the availability of computers in educational settings. Since the technology became available for all ages, the amount of technology usage increased in early childhood classrooms (Haugland, 1997). Despite of the dramatic increase of computers in early childhood classrooms, there are still…

Results of an evaluation of documents and other resources related to curricula distributed by the Alberta (Canada) Department of Education are provided. Specifically, the study was designed to: identify teacher and student needs relative to the implementation of new and revised curricula; determine the effectiveness of current publications and…

This manual provides a relevant resource for mathematics teachers who wish to take advantage of the extensive library of computer software materials available to expand and strengthen classroom instruction. Classroom management procedures, software duplication guidelines, procedures for copying diskettes for MS DOS and Apple II computers, and…

The perceptions of teachers about students' lack of success were studied, and the groundwork was laid for the future study of the effectiveness of a policy of warning students and parents of impending failure. The primary sources of data were teacher-coded reasons for failure, given on notices (progress reports) to secondary school students in the…

Electronic aids can be used to augment the lecturing process and improve students' learning experience when teaching large groups of students at the university level. They can, among other things, stimulate student interest in the material, display the unfolding structure of a lecture, provide students ready access to the instructor's own lecture…

This study was conducted in 1989 to analyze the registration processes used in Florida's public community colleges and universities, focusing on procedures, staffing, technologies used to facilitate registration, the relationship between student automated advisement systems and existing registration processes, and institutional procedures for…

This manual provides a resource for mathematics teachers who wish to take advantage of the extensive library of computer software materials available to expand and strengthen classroom instruction. Classroom management procedures, software duplication guidelines, copying procedures of diskettes for MS DOS and Apple II computers, and methods for…

This material was produced by a task force of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics to provide independent study projects for use in grades four through six. The major goals are as follows: (1) to encourage student research, investigation, and communication of mathematics through reporting and writing; (2) to provide activities that are…

Recent research has demonstrated the promise of graphing software as an aid to teaching graphs in two content areas: line graphs of aspects of motion and graphs of algebraic functions. This study attempted to generalize the idea of computer-assisted graphing to include the use of several kinds of graphs to solve a wider range of problems. A unit…