H.R. 3750, the Computer Literacy Act, and H.R. 4628, the National Educational Software Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology of the Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, June 5, 1984 |
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Page 177 - States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution, school, or school system, or over the selection of library resources, textbooks, or other printed or published instructional materials by any educational institution or school system, or to require the assignment or transportation of students or teachers in order to overcome racial imbalance.
Page 350 - ... (2) The Congress further declares it to be the policy of the United States to — (i) help to solve or to alleviate the problems of, and promote the reform and renewal of American education...
Page 177 - Act shall be construed to authorize any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States (including members of the Council) to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum...
Page 10 - We appear to be raising a generation of Americans, many of whom lack the understanding and the skills necessary to participate fully in the technological world in which they live and work.
Page 232 - For studies that reported means and standard deviations for both experimental and control groups, we calculated ES from the measurements provided. For less fully reported studies, we calculated ES from statistics such as / and F, using procedures described by McGaw and Glass (1980).
Page 269 - The details of the specific program obviously need to be "debugged" - there has to be room for change, for some degree of flexibility in order to get it right - but the goal is always getting the program to realise the plan. Soft mastery is more interactive. Kevin is like a painter who stands back between brushstrokes, looks at the canvas, and only from this contemplation decides what to do next. Hard mastery is the mastery of the planner, the engineer; soft mastery is the mastery of the artist:...
Page 6 - Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have a statement which I would like to submit for the record. Senator SPARKMAN.
Page 226 - A meta-analysis of 32 comparative studies showed that computer-based education has generally had positive effects on the achievement of elementary school pupils. These effects have been different, however, for programs of off-line computer-managed instruction (CMI) and for interactive computer-assisted instruction (CAI). The average effect in 28 studies of CAI programs was an increase in pupil achievement scores of 0.47 standard deviations, or from the 50th to the 68th percentile. The average effect...
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Page 269 - Getting the program to work is more like getting to say one's piece than allowing ideas to emerge in the give-and-take of conversation.