Individually Guided Education/Multiunit Schools-Secondary (IGE/MUS-S) is a research and development project currently in operation at the University of Wisconsin. As often happens in education, the operational need for the project was so great that it came into existence before it was formally justified in theory. This paper attempts to discuss…

The purpose of this study was to identify any increase or decrease in expenditures among a stratified sample of schools during their first year of implementing the system of Individually Guided Education in the Multiunit Elementary School (IGE/MUS-E). IGE/MUS-E is a comprehensive educational system incorporating several innovative educational…

Following a survey of 2,361 practical nurses in New York City municipal hospitals in 1968, a specific multiple-track nursing sequence was developed to meet manpower shortages and upgrade licensed practical nurses (LPN's) to registered nurses (RN's) and nurse's aides (NA's) to LPN's. The two models designed were for use in New York City but it is…

This investigation was conducted as an attempt to document certain aspects of small group work and their relationships with process education. Particular attention was given to such student characteristics as ability levels, quality of group performance, and attitudes toward problem solving. Small groups of students were videotaped while working…

THIS ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTAINS 373 ENTRIES ON THE NONGRADED SCHOOL FROM 1916 TO 1960. (DG)

TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE GRADUATES OF MELBOURNE HIGH SCHOOL, IN BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA, WERE SUFFICIENTLY DIFFERENT FROM GRADUATES OF ANOTHER HIGH SCHOOL IN THE SAME DISTRICT TO WARRANT FURTHER RESEARCH, A PILOT STUDY WAS CONDUCTED. MELBOURNE HAS RECEIVED ACCLAIM FOR ITS NONGRADED, CONTINUOUS PROGRESS, INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM AND FOR THE NUMEROUS…

This annotated bibliography is a selected listing of 11 books and pamphlets, three dissertations, and 31 articles on year-round school programs published since 1962. The documents listed explore the effects on cost and educational quality of (1) staggered quarter plans, (2) quarter system plans, (3) staggered trimester plans, (4) split trimester…

Computer technology has been used since 1972 in the Madison, Wisconsin, public schools to control the flow of information required to support individualized instruction. Madison's computer-managed instruction system, MICA (Managed Instruction with Computer Assistance), operates interactively within individualized instruction programs to provide…

This guide was developed to acquaint teachers with the Continuous Progress Program, which is designed to recognize the individual differences of students in a nongraded curricular system and to make available to teachers a comprehensive set of guidelines for implementation. The guide establishes the parameters within which the operation of an…

A description is provided of the work accomplished in the course of a Title III funded project at the Pueblo Elementary School in Scottsdale, Arizona. Part I of the report describes the function of the instructional materials center in a school with an open-class learning center design. Part II deals with the coding system created to retrieve…

The major activities carried out in the study were the researching of available data pertaining to past attempts at extended school year programs; programs now in operation; and current theories, projections, and sociological trends relative to extended school year plans. Each plan was evaluated according to its potential to contribute…

This looseleaf booklet provides Pittsburgh Diocesan administrators and teachers a step-by-step guide to the nongraded program toward which most Diocesan schools have been working for the past 15 years. The guide embodies information on parent-teacher conferences, testing, grouping, and the program mechanics and philosophy. Mathematics and reading…

Research investigating the performance of students enrolled in courses taught by a Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) has tended to support the claim that PSI is a superior teaching method. The present research study isolated the self-pacing aspect of PSI courses and attempted to teach 13 academically deficient first year college students…

A city-wide elementary school reading program that emphasizes mastery learning and continuous progress in Chicago, Continuous Progress--Mastery Learning, is blamed for the declining reading test scores of high school students there. The program's origins and evolution are described along with a new program, Chicago Mastery Learning Reading, which…

Discusses four educational methods designed to deal with the risk of kindergarten failure. Methods include increased provision of prekindergarten programs; adoption of a later school entrance age; a developmental placement system; and a continuous progress plan with multi-age groupings. (BB)