Abstract
Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) is a vehicle for student learning at his own pace. This traditionally signifies the presentation of a body of material followed by questions pertaining to that material. The progress of the student can be measured by his performance on review questions. This research is intended to add to the body of material which allows a student to progress at his own rate of learning. A Computer Assisted Instruction course was designed and implemented to teach the FORTRAN programming language. This course has provided the framework for research in the area of Interactive Directed Programming (IDP). In an IDP environment the student is requested to proceed beyond the material-question-answer mode of CAI and must actually write programs that will satisfy the IDP criteria for good programming techniques. The interaction takes place when the student receives a critique of his program and must respond with an improved program. The direction results from the fact that the student must program a specific problem presented in the IDP course. Since the student must actually write a program, the term programming is appropriate. The design and implementation of the IDP course is described in this dissertation. The programs that constitute this course are contained in Appendix B.
Ward, Darrell Lynn (1973). Interactive directed programming in computer assisted instruction. Doctoral dissertation, Texas A&M University. Texas A&M University. Libraries. Available electronically from
https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /DISSERTATIONS -158427.