ABSTRACT
Management involves decisions about who will control the instructional path through the unit, and how to regulate those aspects of management that are placed under computer control. Human factors include motivation, access to special displays, interaction with the computer, and personalization. In the Ripple Plan, decisions concern managing the flow of instruction within the unit. After making human factors and management plans, leave the band of circles in the Ripple Plan to program, evaluate, and revise the unit. Plan revisions needed as determined by the preceding evaluation. Programming code must be written to collect the data, retrieve it, and make decisions about what to do next. The more elaborate the management program, the greater the use of system resources. In one computer-assisted instruction program students studied under one of four instructional conditions, three of which were the same fixed sequence of events, and one of which was a random sequence of events.
