The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of two forms of concept mapping, hand-drawn and computer-generated, on the descriptive essay writing of middle-level students with learning disabilities. Twelve eighth-grade students composed descriptive essays under three conditions: no-map support, handmap support, and computer-map support. The essays were compared on four measures: number ...

Right From the Start is a project at Western Kentucky University designed to provide novice students with a foundation for later programming study through a series of interactive design tasks involving fundamental logic structures. To support this goal, the instructional tool Visual has been developed and used in classroom settings. (To obtain copies of the Visual software and related support m...

We contribute to the evolving theory of organizational processes by developing a precise conceptualization of process. We argue that processes are assemblies of activities and explore constraints on assembling them. We observe that assembling activities into processes often requires performance of additional activities. We illustrate the applicability of these ideas to a case of restaurant serv...

Although business performance has long been theoretically hypothesised to be dependent on the level of underlying Information Technology capability, there is a distinct lack of empirical studies to support this claim. In this paper we discuss preliminary results of ongoing research into the knock-on effects of computer network support to business process performance indicators. Based on a real-...

This paper describes a novel theoretical and empirical approach to tasks such as business process redesign and knowledge management. The project involves collecting examples of how different organizations perform similar processes, and organizing these examples in an on-line ìprocess handbook". The handbook is intended to help people: (1) redesign existing organizational processes, (2) invent n...