The Basic Instructional Program: Supervisor's Manual.
Abstract
The BASIC Instructional Program (BIP) is an interactive problem-solving laboratory that teaches elementary programming in the BASIC language. This manual documents the goals, methods, and operation of BIP for supervisory instructors. The first two sections describe features of BIP that may be of interest to the supervisor, especially the individualized task-selection algorithm and the Curriculum Information Network (CIN), which stores the relationships among elements of the author-written course material. The remaining sections describe in detail all the necessary information on how to supervise the operation of BIP. Section 3 describes the creation and use of certain files that may be written to during BIP execution (e.g., when there is an error in a model solution or when a student disagrees with the solution checker). Section 4 tells how to add and drop students from the course. Section 5 provides details of adding new tasks to the BIP curriculum and a description of the solution checker. Finally, Section 6 tells how to obtain student progress reports.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 1978
- Accession Number
- ADA165830
Entities
People
- Marney H. Beard
- Mary L. Dageforde
Organizations
- Stanford University