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ERIC Number: ED289482
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1987
Pages: 82
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
The 1987 Educational Software Preview Guide.
Educational Software Evaluation Consortium, Menlo Park, CA.
Developed to help educators locate computer software programs they may want to preview for students in K-12, this guide lists commercially available programs that have been favorably reviewed by members of the Educational Software Evaluation Consortium. Programs are listed alphabetically by title within curriculum areas: art; business education (accounting/bookkeeping, economics, typing); computers (awareness, programming/science, programming languages); electronic periodicals; foreign language; health; home economics/living skills; instructional tools (authoring systems, databases, graphics generators, instructional materials generators, shell/mini-authoring systems, spelling checkers, spreadsheets, telecommunications, word processors); keyboarding; language arts/English (literature, reading, spelling, writing); library media skills; mathematics (advanced, algebra, geometry/measurement, numbers, problem solving); music; preschool/early childhood; problem solving/logic; science (astronomy, biology, chemistry, earth science, environmental education/ecology, general science, physics, scientific method/lab equipment); social science (economics, geography, government/political science, history, sociology); tests and testing; and vocational education/industrial arts. Information provided for each program includes the title, a very brief annotation, the publisher, computer equipment required, instructional mode(s), grade levels, and price. The guide also includes a list of the 27 members of the consortium; a key to the abbreviations used; an alphabetical list of titles; publisher abbreviations; and publishers' addresses. (RP)
Publication Sales, California State Department of Education, P.O. Box 271, Sacramento, CA 95802-0271 ($2.00).
Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom; Book/Product Reviews
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
Sponsor: California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento.
Authoring Institution: Educational Software Evaluation Consortium, Menlo Park, CA.
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A