COMPUTER=BASED SYSTEMS: THE NEW RESEARCH AID.
Abstract
Two arguments are presented in connection with programed instruction; one concerns its past, the other its future. The first, and historical point, is that programed instruction has already served the study of learning by focusing attention on the problem of individual differences. Although Tolman (1936) and Hull (1943), for example, acknowledged the relationship between individual differences and learning, little real attention went into the explication of this relationship until the advent of programed instruction. The second, and prospective argument, is that computer-based teaching machine systems will contribute to experiments in basic learning, and, in fact, will permit the study of variables relating to response contingencies that can not be studied in any other way. Programed instruction has helped in uniting two fields of psychology that have developed separately, but that need to be related in application (Stolurow, 1960; 1961): these are the field of psychometrics, which has concerned itself with individual differences in abilities and achievement, and the field of learning which, to a large extent, has ignored individual differences.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 1964
- Accession Number
- AD0608686
Entities
People
- Daniel J. Davis
- Lawrence M. Stolurow
Organizations
- University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign