This study determined whether chronological age differences among students in the same grade level affected their respective levels of academic performance on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) mathematics assessment. The study analyzed the additional independent variables of gender, socioeconomic status, and special education…

This study examined the perspectives of parents of children with autism receiving special education services in an upper Midwestern state. This study sought to determine parent perspectives of priorities for the child's IEP, parent perspectives of content of the child's IEP, and parent perspectives of their experiences at the school, comfort level…

Various interventions have been developed to promote student individualized education program (IEP) participation. Although they are generally endorsed by educators and researchers, critics argue that interventions to promote self-determination and IEP participation may be counter to the values of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD)…

This report evaluates how effective the brokerage system operated by the Community Living Society in Vancouver (British Columbia) has been in meeting the needs of individuals with a mental handicap living in the community. The program stresses service brokerage, a mechanism to deliver the planning resources required to arrange and purchase…

Provides brief descriptions of a number of new materials and products for use by teachers. Brief descriptions are given for each. (LS)

This article examines and questions the objectives, materials, techniques, and teacher motivations of affective education. (BD)

Station teaching can help solve problems of keeping student interest and providing individualized instruction in the junior high school language class. Students work individually on certain exercises and check their own progress at each station. (CHK)

Suggests that given the current weaknesses in empirical bases for specifying competencies and the problems with assessment, the first rule of individuals and groups with power or influence in education would be not to legislate competencies or objectives and not to legislate competency based education. (Author/AM)

Report of a study conducted to determine whether an individualized French course would retain more students than other types of courses have in the past. (PMP)

Describes the classroom management of an individualized program in English as a second language currently in operation at Washington Irving Educational Center in Schenectady, New York. Included in the article are three charts: the floorplan of the classroom, a sample progress chart, and a daily record chart. (PMP)

Discusses plans and techniques on Omaha, Nebraska, school district developed for implementing distric wide educational goals. (JG)

This instructor's manual is designed to help in implementing a course for caregivers on individual planning for individuals with disabilities. Content notes and implementation notes for each section are provided, as are sheets for overhead projection, worksheets, and handouts. The course is organized into 19 sections to be administered in 8 hours…

Findings are presented from a site visit to a Raleigh, North Carolina, program that provides in-home support to children and adults with severe disabilities and their families. The program, the Wake County Community Alternatives Program for Persons with Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities, is administered by the North Carolina Department…

Describes an individualized general biology course, taught at Marymount College of Kansas, that encourages students to assume responsibilty for their own learning. (JR)

As one of the components of the Project ACTIVE (All Children Totally Involved Exercising) Teacher Training Model Kit, the manual is designed to enable the educator to organize, conduct, and evaluate individualized-personalized programs for children in grades 4 through 12 with postural abnormalities. An introductory chapter covers definitions and…