The need for continuing education for medical laboratory workers is growing daily. To serve this need the National Committee for Careers in Medical Laboratory (NCCML) has put together 72 self-study lectures, with 600 companion slides and printed text, to help workers keep us with developments in their fields. (DS)

Analysis of 38 curriculum guides suggests the pace of change in English classrooms is slow and undramatic. (JH)

This book describes all the major components of Individually Guided Education (IGE). IGE is a system of many interrelated components as well as a strategy for attaining educational objectives. When fully implemented, IGE takes on an institutional character as a new kind of school. The book is intended primarily for use as a college textbook. In…

There has been in recent years a growing acceptance of individualized learning concepts. Learning Centers have come to be viewed as an economical and viable strategy for accommodating diverse learning styles and needs. This book provides the educator with an understanding of the learning center concept, its origins, present manifestations, and…

This document presents a description and an evaluation of the Corrective Reading Services Program, a component within the ESEA Title I nonpublic school program. This component was designed to serve approximately 12,000 eligible, educationally deprived children in 229 schools in New York City during the 1975-76 school year. The purpose of the…

Part one of this survey of special projects in computer applications to education is a resource guide to computers and education in Germany. A directory-type outline is provided for 13 projects in the areas of computer assisted instruction (CAI) and clinical training, adaptive tests, instructional analysis and synthesis of CAI programs and courses…

One year after they had participated in the validation of the Estes Reading Attitude Scale, 75 fourth, fifth, and sixth graders were asked to respond to and comment on the questions in an interview situation. Thirty-six of these students had scored low on the attitude inventory but high on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills; 39 had scored high on the…

Examples of how Empire State College in New York uses learning contracts together with first results of students' evaluation of their use.

How individualized programs require individualized assessment of student achievement, and how these programs can themselves be assessed. (Editor)

An account of one school's home-involvement program and its benefits. (BRT)

Describes a reading program that uses a combination of basal readers to teach beginning reading. (RB)

In a 19th century carriage house in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, ideas spring free as teachers fashion classroom materials for their students. (Editor)

Briefly describes an instructional program based on the individual needs of students that was designed for grades K-8. (EB)