Effective Instruction with Microcomputers: Promises, Practices, and Preliminary Findings

Introduction to Technology in Transition

“…Heightened awareness of the potential of technology in special education has been gaining momentum over the last two decades. It is interesting to observe that as the first signs of technological advances in the field of disabilities were being heralded in the early and middle 1980s (e.g., Behrmann, 1984;Blackhurst & Hofmeister, 1980;Ellis & Sabornie, 1986; Hasselbring, Goin, & Bransford, 1988;Jordan & Thomas, 1982;Rieth, Bahr, Polsgrove, Okolo, & Eckhert, 1987), the field of special education also was in the midst of articulating and developing principles of transition and career education. Madeline Will's (1984) call for transition legislation first put into a national focus the need for bridging school to work for all students with disabilities.…”

Effectiveness of a multi-component treatment for improving mathematics fluency.

“…Immediate response evaluation and error correction procedures can help ensure that students do not engage in high rates of incorrect responding (Skinner & Smith, 1992). Responses can be evaluated by teachers, computers, peers, or even the student who made the responses (i.e., self-evaluation) immediately after the responses occur (Ellis & Sabornie, 1986; Greenwood et al, 1987; Skinner & Smith, 1992). In many educational settings, resources are not available for each student to receive teacher- or computer-delivered evaluation and immediate feedback after each response.…”