Published: 1988
Total Pages: 120
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Developed to help educators locate microcomputer software programs they may want to preview for students in grades K-12, this guide lists commercially available instructional software programs that have been favorably reviewed by members of the Educational Software Evaluation Consortium. Programs are arranged alphabetically by title within curriculum areas: art; business education (accounting/bookkeeping, economics, and typing); computers; electronic periodicals; health, instructional tools (authoring system, classroom management, database, graphics generator, instructional materials generator, spelling checker, spreadsheet, student study aid, telecommunications, and word processor); keyboarding; language arts; library media skills; mathematics (advanced mathematics, algebra, geometry/measurement, number, problem solving and statistics); music; preschool/early childhood; problem solving/logic; science (astronomy, biology, chemistry, earth science, environmental education/ecology, general science, physics, and scientific method/lab equipment); social science (economics, geography, government/political science, history, and sociology); tests and testing; vocational education/industrial arts; world languages (French, German, Spanish, and language tool). Information provided for each program includes the title, publishers, computer and instructional mode specifications, grade level(s), price, and a very brief annotation. A list of review participants, abbreviation keys, an alphabetical list of titles, publishers' addresses, 11 articles and a policy statement on software use, review, and evaluation, eight of which are reprints from Computers in Composition Instruction or The Computing Teacher are also included. (EW)