COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR Editor Robert D. Tennyson University of Minnesota
List of Contents and Author Index Volume 8,1992
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Computers
in Human Behavior 1992
Volume 8, Number 1
COMPUTER
SPECIAL ISSUE: USE IN THE IMPROVEMENT
OF WRITING
CONTENTS W Michael Reed Curtis J. Bonk
1
Computers and Writing Research: Extending Agendas Across Ages
Bill Wresch
9
What I Learned in Wabeno
Sandra Bradford DeCosta
17
Sociological Findings in Young Children’s Word-Processed Writings
Margaret A. Moore Stuart A. Karabenick
27
The Effects of Computer Communications on the Reading and Writing Performance of Fifth-Grade Students
Curtis J. Bonk Thomas H. Reynolds
39
Early Adolescent Composing Within a Generative-Evaluative Computerized Prompting Framework
David I? Palumbo Doris L. Prater
63
A Comparison of Computer-Based Prewriting Strategies for Basic NinthGrade Writers
Gwendolyn S. Rosenbluth W Michael Reed
71
The Effects of Writing-Process Based Instruction and Word Processing on Remedial and Accelerated 11th Graders
W Michael Reed
97
The Effects of Computer-Based Writing Tasks and Mode of Discourse on the Performance and Attitudes of Writers of Varying Abilities
Richard C. Overbaugh
121
Word Processors and Writing-Process Software: Introduction and Evaluation Software
Leonard L. Snyder
Review
149
Automated Social History (ASH Plus) Software Package
153
Announcements
411
1992
Volume 8, Numbers 213
CONTENTS Dean McKenzie Lee Hun Low
155
The Construction of Computerized Classification Systems Using Machine Learning Algorithms: An Overview
Pat-Anthony Federico
169
Assessing Semantic Knowledge Using Computer-Based and Paper-Based Media
Edward van Aarle John van den Bercken
183
The Development of a Knowledge-Based System Supporting the Diagnosis of Reading and Spelling Problems
Clay E. George J. Scott Lanvord Sheri E. Wilson
203
The Effects of Computerized Versus Paper-and-Pencil Administration on Measures of Negative Affect
S. Mark Pancer Margo George Robert J. Gebotys
211
Understanding and Predicting Attitudes Towards Computers
B. Douglas Ford Romeo Vitelli
223
Inmate Attitudes Towards Computerized Clinical Interventions
Robertta H. Barba Cheryl L. Mason
231
Construct Validity Studies for the DrawA-Computer User Test
Kent F: Burnett C. Barr Taylor W Stewart Agras
239
Ambulatory Computer-Assisted Behavior Therapy for Obesity: An Empirical Model for Examining Behavioral Correlates of Treatment Outcome
Mohammed H. Omar
249
Attitudes of College Students Towards Computers: A Comparative Study in the United States and the Middle East
Ok-choon Park
259
Instructional Applications of Hypermedia: Functional Features, Limitations, and Research Issues Software Review
Leonard L. Snyder Wayne K. Schmidt
273
PC Tools for Expert System Development
279
Announcement
412
Winter 1992
Volume 8, Number 4 CONTENTS Alexander
I. Zelitchenko
Peggy A. Golden Renee Beauclair
281 297
Information Retrieval Expert System “Matchmaker” Factors Affecting Electronic Mail Use
Lyle Sussman Herman G. Weller H. Rex Hartson
313
Metaphors for the Nature of HumanComputer Interaction in an Empowering Environment: Interaction Style Influences the Manner of Human Accomplishment
Michael D. Coovert Eduardo Salas Kamesh Ramakrishna
335
The Role of Individual and System Characteristics in Computerized Training Systems
Lois J. Baron Philip C. Abrami
353
The Effects of Group Size and Exposure Time on Microcomputer Learning
Nicholas V Findler
367
An Excursion Into Social and Cultural Anthropology by Artificial Intelligence An Automated Discovery System to Identify Rules of Inheritance, Succession, Marriage, Injunction Against Incest, and Exogamy
Naomi B. McCormick John W McCormick
379
Computer Friends and Foes: Content of Undergraduates’ Electronic Mail
407
Announcement
409
List of Contents and Author Index Volume 8, 1992
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Volume 8,1992 Author Index
Abrami, Philip C., 353 Agras, W. Stewart, 239
McKenzie, Dean, 155 Moore, Margaret A., 27
Barba, Robertta H., 23 1 Baron, Lois J., 353 Beauclair, Renee, 297 Bonk, Curtis J., 1, 39 Burnett, Kent F.. 239
Omar, Mohammed H., 249 Overbaugh, Richard C., 121 Palumbo, David P., 63 Pancer, S. Mark, 211 Park, Ok-choon, 259 Prater, Doris L., 63
Coovert, Michael D., 335 DeCosta, Sandra Bradford, 17
Ramakrishna, Kamesh. 335 Reed, W. Michael, 1,7 1,97 Reynolds, Thomas H., 39 Rosenbluth, Gwendolyn S., 71
Federico, Pat-Anthony, 169 Findler, Nicholas V., 367 Ford, B. Douglas, 223
Salas. Eduardo, 335 Schmidt, Wayne K., 273 Snyder, Leonard L., 149,273 Sussman, Lyle, 297
Gebotys, Robert J., 211 George, Clay E., 203 George, Margo, 211 Golden, Peggy A., 297
Taylor, C. Barr, 239 Hartson, H. Rex, 3 13 van Aarle, Edward, 183 van den Bercken, John, 183 Vitelli, Romeo, 223
Karabenick, Stuart A., 27 Lankford, J. Scott, 203 Low, Lee Hun, 155
Weller, Herman G., 313 Wilson, Sheri E., 203 Wresch, Bill, 9
Mason, Cheryl L., 231 McCormick, John W., 379 McCormick, Naomi B., 379
Zelitchenko, Alexander I., 281
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