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Pratt, David – 1978
Social, philosophical, and economic pressures are confronting curriculum designers with the major problem of designing instruction which produces consistently high learning despite wide variation in student characteristics. This is essentially a cybernetic question of regulating variety in a system to produce a stable output. It is observed that…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Curriculum Design, Cybernetics, Educational Development