A video monitoring technique for investigating computer-based learning programs

Abstract Few studies of computer-based learning materials concentrate upon the learner-computer interaction. Fewer studies have focused on the way children learn science using computer-based learning programs. The studies that have been done employed observational methods. A video monitoring technique, which produces a synchronized record of the computer output and the children's use of the computer program is described. The technique affords a greater precision of data than observational techniques. A study which employed this technique is described.