Computer program to aid studying |
By Diane Brayton
Staff Reporter
A software specialist claims he
has developed a program for college
students that dramatically will im
prove their grades.
Ron Orlick, president of Ron Or
lick Software of Brandywine, Md.,
said an IBM-compatible program
called CRAMBO will change the
way students study.
“Most students just learn facts,”
Orlick said. “They need to ask ques
tions. When you ask yourself ques
tions you study differently.”
CRAMBO asks students questions
based on material they enter onto the
disk during the course. The program
is made up of two disks.
Information from notes, textbooks
and old exams is entered by the stu
dent on the “make-test” disk. Each
entry is marked with where the infor
mation originated, such as a page of a
text, Orlick said.
The second “take-test” disk
makes up a test from this information,
Orlick said.
The program differs from regular
studying because it gives students
direction, Orlick said. By taking the
self-test, he said, students learn
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where their weakness in a subject lies
and are able to skip over information
they answer correctly.
“It’s important to know what you
don’t know, but it is also important to
know what you do know,” Orlick
said.
Students will save time because
they don’t need to review informa
tion they already know, he said. Thus,
they are able to direct studying and
save time.
Orlick developed the idea for the
program from his own college expe
rience. To improve his study habits,
he wrote questions and answers about
subjects on flash cards. He also wrote
down where the information could be
found. Although the method was time
consuming, it was effective, he said.
Orlick used the same principle
when designing CRAMBO.
By inputting data throughout the
course, students can test themselves I
before exams and cram the informa
tion they don’t know, he said.
They also have more time to ask
their instructors questions about ma
terial they don’t understand, Orlick
said.
Students who buy CRAMBO can
make money on the product by sell
ing the contents of the test disk, Or
lick said.
Once students finish using the
“take-test” disk, they can copy the
input onto a copy-protected disk and
sell it to other students taking the
same courses. The “make-test’rdisk
lets students input any missing infor
mation.
The program normally costs $114,
but in September the price is $85.
“You can make money while
boosting your grade,” Orlick said.
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he doesn’t normally function.
“It’s kind of fun to get out into a
class every now and then,’’ he said.
Griesen said he usually attends
about two classes a year as part of the
Innocents Society’s swap week, but
this was the first time he had the
chance to do the other things that
make up a student’s day.
In addition to attending the foun
dation’s activities, Miles and Griesen
went to a College of Dentistry fund
raiser and United Way kick-off cam
paign on their own.
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include a growing addiction to crack,
refined cocaine in crystalline rock
form. Another reason could be an in
creasing number of Americans -- par
ticularly middle-class citizens ~ are
becoming less tolerant of drug use, he
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Marijuana use, for example, has
declined considerably since the
“reefer madness” of the 1960s, he
said.
When the drug first was intro
duced in the ’60s, it was seen as
extremely harmful, Osgood said.
Later, marijuana users’ perceptions
of the drug went to the other extreme,
he said, and they thought it had no
harmful effects.
But after more experience with the
drug, those who used it came to
“realistic views” of its pros and
cons, he said.
For this reason, Osgood said,
marijuana use has decreased.
“Adolescents have come to see
those drugs as more dangerous . . .
less fun to do and more harmful,” he
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Law student wins $500
The University of Nebraska Col
lege of Law has awarded the $500
first prize in the Nathan Burkan
Memorial Competition to Ramona
Paetzold of Lincoln.
The Nathan Burkan Memorial
Competition is sponsored annually
by the American Society of Compos
ers, Authors, and Publishers (AS
CAP) to stimulate interest in the field
of copyright law. This award has
been given annually since 1938.
Paetzold won the award for writ
ing an essay entitled “Contracts En
larging a Copyright Owner’s Rights:
a Framework for Determining Uncn
forceabilily.’’
Paetzold, a senior at the law col
lege, also will be considered for one
of five national prizes ranging in
value from $500 to $3,000.
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