Book Description

The Computer-Assisted Instruction Study Management System (CAISMS) was developed and implemented on the PLATO system to monitor and guide student study of text materials. It administers assignments, gives quizzes, and automatically keeps track of a student's progress. This report describes caisms and several hypothetical implementations of caisms by other means--(1) a manual system without computers, and (2) a computer-managed system, including a batch-oriented computer system with a computer operator interfacing the students and the computer; a time-sharing system similar to plato but not instruction-oriented; a minicomputer system running 20 to 30 terminals used only for caisms delivery; and a microcomputer system with one small computer per student. Finally, the report describes how caisms was implemented in a university economics course and a community college history course, and how it might be implemented in two Navy courses--interior communications and air conditioning/refrigeration.