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Mack, Herschel; Littlejohn, Stephen – 1977
This paper describes a field study of the "Personalized System of Instruction" (PSI) as it was used in an undergraduate communications research course. On the basis of statistics from two years of the program's implementation and from student responses after completing the course, the study draws five conclusions. (1) Most students did…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Field Studies, Fixed Sequence, Higher Education
Peer reviewedBoreham, N. C.; And Others – Instructional Science, 1985
This study investigated the effects of two sequences of instruction--theory-to-application and application-to-theory--on medical students' cognitive preferences in preclinical science teaching. Results indicate that presenting an example of the clinical application of biochemical theory before presenting the theory itself increased students'…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Analysis of Variance, Biochemistry, Epistemology
