Using Computers
 : Form Fill
Approach: Station
56k
Resources: Macintosh Powerbook 5300cs laptop computer with program Hypercard¨ Player; headphones; mouse; introductory Hypercard¨ document Mac Moves and Hypercard¨ document Form Fill.

Questions / instructions:

The form the students were to fill in was on 3 screens (below, press on image(s) to enlarge). There were no verbal instructions for this task.

Form Fill 1   Form Fill 2   Form Fill 3

The student clicked the brightly coloured button to go to the next screen; the button on the final page returned the student to the main (Home) screen for choosing tasks.

If the student typed without first clicking in a field they heard beeps for each key typed and a cue field appeared (middle screen).

% responses
y4
y8
Responded appropriately to all task components
57
70
Responded appropriately to most task components, but made one error
33
23
Incomplete response, or more than one error
10
6
 
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