Based on the analysis of 16 interviews with women first-year master's students at two national engineering schools in Japan, this article examines the socialisation role of compulsory undergraduate research experience in Japanese women's decisions to pursue graduate education and choices of the programme. The findings suggest that research…

This document, eighth in a series of 11 subvolumes of a handbook prepared to provide training for educational research and development personnel in the development of instructional materials, deals with the task of planning accommodation of individual differences. The document is organized according to the two sequential steps involved in…

The elementary school teacher's task of decision-making in Individually Guided Education programs is doubly important because of its benefits to the individual child and its potential source of professionalism for the teacher. (MM)

Teachers in IGE should emphasize and explain the goals, instructional objectives, and philosophy of the unit team. (MM)