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)
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programing), Computer Graphics, Computer Software Reviews, Courseware, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Arts, Material Development, Microcomputers, Science Instruction, Second Language Instruction, Social Sciences, Word Processing
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