Novelli, J. (1993, October). Better tools for better teamwork. Instructor 103, 43-5. The basic thesis of this article is that technology is uniquely suited to the task of contemporary classroom. The evaluation of computer-assisted instruction is that it is really essential for making instruction succeed in classrooms that contain groups of students with several different intellectual capacities. Novelli cites personal experience in an elementary-school classroom in which cooperative or collaborative learning groups were made possible by computer-assisted instruction modalities. Indeed, a secondary argument in the article is that the traditional student-group practice of confining accelerated, mid-level, and slow groups of students solely among their peers has resulted in inefficient and unproductive learning. Th