Research in Progress--Update April 1990. Occasional Paper InTER/14/90.

This document contains abstracts of 29 research projects in progress in Great Britain divided into six sections: (1) the current phase of Information Technology in Education Research (InTER) programs on groupwork with computers, tools for exploratory learning, conceptual change in science, and bubble dialogue as an ethnographic research tool; (2) projects supported by other agencies on computer-aided learning in music, computer testing of musical ability, effects of gender and interaction in computer-based learning, computer models of reading and spelling, computer-supported collaborative learning in physics, a computer-based program for mathematics teachers, the gap between arithmetical and algebraic thinking, computers in the secondary school curriculum, and information technology and training; (3) Economic and Social Research Council Linked Research Students projects on a knowledge-based approach to question answering in online systems and the design of knowledge-based advisers for learning; (4) Training Agency projects on supporting technology across the curriculum, whole school development in information technology, computer-based modelling, information technology-based open learning, authoring environments for simulation, and the DISTIL survey; (5) Developing European Learning through Technological Advance (DELTA) projects on a knowledge-based authoring facility, European cooperation in technology-based education, and student model acquisition in a natural laboratory; and (6) updates of InTER projects on the design of the Writer's Assistant and characteristics of human search procedures. (MES)