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Response to crisis: A developer’s look at the importance of needs assessment to teacher educators in the design of computer literacy training programs

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Few educators would argue the relevance or impact of microcomputers on teaching and learning environments. Microcomputers offer the opportunity for profound constructive change. They set the occasion for a reassessment of all that is important in education. Nowhere is this more evident than in Faculties of Education. A necessary precondition, though, to needs assessment, in particular, or curriculum development, in general, is control. This article urges that control be established through probing educationally significant groups to realistically determine attainable needs and to design programs to accomplish those needs.

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  1. Faculty of Education, University of Lethbridge, T1K 3M4, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

    Ludwig Ganske (associate professor)

  2. Curriculum Research and Development at Yukon College, 1000 Lewes Boulevard, Whitehorse, Y1A 3H9, Yukon, Canada

    Pauline Hamamoto (coordinator)

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Ganske, L., Hamamoto, P. Response to crisis: A developer’s look at the importance of needs assessment to teacher educators in the design of computer literacy training programs. ECTJ 32, 101–113 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02766670

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