Developed to help educators locate microcomputer software programs they may want to preview for students in grades K-12, this guide lists commercially available microcomputer software programs that have been favorably reviewed by members of the Educational Software Evaluation Consortium. Programs are arranged alphabetically by title within curriculum areas: art; business education; computers; electronic periodicals; health; instructional tools (authoring system, classroom management, database, desktop publishing, graphics generator, instructional materials generator, spreadsheet, student study aid, telecommunications, and word processor); keyboarding; language arts; library media skills; mathematics (advanced, algebra, geometry/measurement, number, and statistics); multimedia; music; preschool/early childhood; problem solving/logic; science (biology, chemistry, earth science, environmental education/ecology, general science, physics, space science, and scientific method/lab equipment); social studies; tests and testing; vocational education/industrial arts; and world languages (French, German, and Spanish). Each entry includes the title, publisher, computer type(s), instructional modes, rating, grade levels, price, and a brief annotation. An alphabetical title list includes the publisher of each program. A list of consortium participants and a directory of publishers are also provided. (DB)