Show Computer System To Aid Educators During the first part of February Utah's school system will take another step toward gearing classroom experience more closely to the needs of the THAT'S when the progress of students of the Wasatch Elementary School in Salt Lake City will be and analyzed The pilot dubbed Support of will record the daily progress of each student and make this information available to the teacher in a variety of The reports will outline each student's strengths and They will also assist the teacher in recognizing which students require her personal attention on a particular The computer is even programmed to forecast the equipment the teacher may need for the next day's ACCORDING TO Maurice C. Administrator of the Utah State Board of Education's Division of Data the Wasatch Elementary project is the test model for the program which will eventually be available in all or Utah's daily computer reports may indicate much more quickly than a teacher when a student has a problem or for some reason has lost said getting at educational problems and applying individual teacher we hope to eliminate many of the unsuccessful experiences kids have in BARNETT went on to explain that the computer is one of the main tools in the development of individualized j instruction programs which j allow students to learn at their own rate and more nearly achieve their own in- is not the first time the computer has been used in recording the achievement of our youngsters in i said currently have the school t records of more than Utah students available on the 1 State Board of Education's BUT THIS is a bookkeeping The Wasatch Elementary project will be focusing on a daily input of information to provide an intricate analysis of each student's In this case the computer is going far beyond the mere bookkeeping function by providing the teacher with very detailed information about the student on a day-today FROM THIS and other firsthand the teacher can determine what action if any she should take to assist the i I Barnett cautioned that the Wasatch Elementary project is only a beginning i point from which to develop the necessary computer techniques and operating computer terminals would be installed in each of Utah's schools with information being fed directly into one centralized computer via telephone THE COMPUTER would then analyze each student individually during the By the following morning each teacher would have a computer readout noting those points which need |