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Download full textERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children, Reston, VA. – 1989
This information sheet, based on "Flexible Pacing for Able Learners" by Neil Daniel and June Cox, defines flexible pacing as any program in which students are taught material that is appropriately challenging for their ability and allows them to move forward in the curriculum as they master content and skill. The document outlines…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Acceleration (Education), Continuous Progress Plan, Curriculum Design
Wade, Winnie, Ed.; Sutton, John, Ed. – 1994
This publication contains interim reports from 26 programs developed at 22 British higher education institutions in response to a government "White Paper" that called for development of more flexible patterns of teaching and learning. Each description includes the institution's title, names of key personnel, short description of the…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), College Instruction, Continuous Progress Plan, Courses
Anderson, Robert H.; Pavan, Barbara Nelson – 1993
Urging educators to abandon the graded system of education, this book advocates the use of a nongraded, continuous approach to education in which students are taught and assessed according to their ability rather than age. The book is divided into 11 chapters. Chapter 1 outlines the history of the graded school movement and argues that conditions…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Administrator Attitudes, Continuous Progress Plan, Curriculum Design
Wade, Winnie, Ed.; And Others – 1994
This book addresses broad issues related to flexible learning in higher education and provides specific examples of how one institution of higher education is implementing more flexible patterns of teaching and learning. The Flexible Learning Initiative, established at Loughborough University of Technology in England, provides an environment which…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, College Curriculum, College English, College Instruction
Kember, David – 1995
This book, which is intended for distance educators and students of the theoretical foundations of distance education, offers a conceptual model of distance education and recommendations for policy and practice that link the principles of instructional design and the provision of learner support. Discussed in the first four chapters are the…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Seattle Public Schools, WA. Task Force on Continuous Progress Education. – 1968
THIS REPORT DESCRIBES A PROPOSED CONTINUOUS PROGRESS EDUCATIONAL CENTER WITH AN EXPECTED ENROLLMENT OF ABOUT 3,500 RACIALLY MIXED PUPILS AT ALL GRADE LEVELS. (A PRESCHOOL GROUP MAY BE ADDED, THUS RAISING THE TOTAL ENROLLMENT.) NO MORE THAN 50 PERCENT OF THE STUDENTS WILL BE NONWHITE AND NO SINGLE MINORITY GROUP (NEGRO, ORIENTAL, FILIPINO, OR…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Schools, Computer Oriented Programs, Continuous Progress Plan
