TITLE Computing Activities iii Secondary Education. Final Report. INSTITUTION American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral

As a followup to a 1969 study, c lied Project CASE, a survey was initiated to determine to what extent computers are used in secondary public schools, and to discern to w at extent computers affect'the quality of education. Some 5,580 ran omly selected schools Ni,yere questioned about their use of computers; c mmercial computer manufacturers were queried about the availabil'ty of computer 0, technology suitable for'use in the secondary schools; the specific exemplary programs-using computers were identified. For the period 1970-75, some major findings were: (1) the use of computers is expanding; (2) schools tend to use computers for both instruction and administration; (3) computer-assisted instruction is being used more but it continues to be,employed predominantly in the instruction of computer science and mathematics; (4) with regard to administration, the computer is most ftequently used for student accounting an