Microcomputers in A Postsecondary Curriculum

Abstract

Like everyone else in education today, our goal is twofold. First, identify the individual's needs, and, second, provide the best possible means to remediate those needs. This means a constant search for innovative ideas-ones that will assist in providing the most efficient and practical way to motivate and challenge our students to accomplish their goals.Our Learning Skills Program at Cabrillo College, Aptos, California, launched in September 1977, provides diagnostic and instructional services to LD adults enrolled at this two-year community college. Our immediate goal is to develop our students' skills to the point where they can be successfully integrated into the regular college curriculum. Each semester our program serves approximately 150 students, 18 years and older, all of whom have been diagnosed as learning disabled through a comprehensive, individualized assessment process. A number of these young people have secondary learning needs (e.g., visual, hearing, mobility, and/or orthopedic difficulties). They are served by a staff of five LD specialists, as well as counselors, teaching assistants, and tutors. In addition to the Laura C. Moyles, MA, is coordinator of the Learning Skills Program, Cabrillo College,

Comparing Student Performance in Live Versus Web-based Instruction in Herbaceous Plant Identification

“…2 (the more reflective the learning style, the higher the quiz score), this trend was not consistent for both experiments and may have been the result of chance. Moyles and Newell (1982) suggest the computer is an excellent tool for the visual learner. However, because there was not a significant correlation between quiz scores and scores on the visual/verbal learning style dimension, our study did not support their statement.…”