Dr. Robert S. Harnack and associates have developed a revolutionary method designed to eliminate the disadvantages, but to retain and improve the advantages of unit teaching. The electronic computer is applied to provide teachers with pre-planning suggestions from a large Computer-Based Resource Unit coded to the students' individual characteristics and objectives. The program employs electronic processing equipment to help teachers design large group, small group, and individual teaching-learning situations. First, the teacher makes decisions about each student's individual characteristics and objectives. Next, these choices are fed into the computer which, in turn, retrieves, from the Computer-Based Resource Unit, specific suggestions of instructional objectives, subject matter items, activities, materials, and evaluation devices. Finally, the machine, in connection with these components, generates and prints a resource guide. In this way, the Computer-Based Resource Unit facilitates teacher decision-making within the context of unit teaching.
