Computer managed instruction should be able to meet student needs immediately, remove clerical work from teachers' tasks, process information at student-pace demand, and fit the prescribed curriculum. To create such an integrated program of compatible instruction, curriculum, and information system, a Madison, Wisconsin, Public Schools Title III…

To assure continuing internal organizational accountability and to promote external communication and idea adoption, Outward Bound began in 1973 on ongoing procedure whereby its affective objectives were identified, analyzed, and evaluated. In a workshop situation teachers initially identified 3 to 6 major affective objectives; these, then, were…

This report describes the intermediate school experiment which organized the middle schools to include grades 5 or 6 through 8, thus replacing the junior high school, grades 7 through 9. Major curriculum innovations were introduced in the areas of foreign language, the humanities, family living, typewriting, and creative and performing arts. The…

In May 1967, a group of individual school districts from around the nation joined forces with the U.S. Office of Education to devise and execute a long-range program for the development of a new secondary school curriculum and organization. The program is called "Educational Systems for the Seventies" (ES '70). The 18 participating…

This research report summarizes a study of independent study projects in 36 American secondary schools selected from a list of 317 schools nominated as having definite and organized independent study programs. The investigators found 8,584 students in the 36 schools involved in independent study programs. Independent study is defined as learning…

Teachers in a small Colorado elementary school noted that their school program needed changes in (1) promotion and retention, (2) acceleration, (3) individualization, and (4) report cards. A gradual conversion was made to a nongraded school program. The nongraded subjects, reading and arithmetic, were set up for individualized instruction.…

A model of computer managed instruction is reported which emphasizes the use of the Wisconsin System for Instructional Management (WIS-SIM) in classroom level decision making. Two major decision areas, specifying performance expectations and selecting appropriate educational experiences, were identified, and five major processes involved in…

A computer-assisted instructional (CAI) program jointly sponsored by the English and Computer Science Departments at Red Deer College is being used to examine the ability of the computer to drill students in spelling. The program, called SPELLINGCLUES, runs in FORTRAN IV on an IBM 360/67 computer and covers a list of 100 frequently misspelled…

The Modular Multiple Alternatives Program (ModMaP), being developed at the University of Bridgeport, is the first competency-based, individualized graduate program in teacher education in the state of Connecticut. The program focuses on elementary teacher training and includes both master's and six-year level options. The program provides the…

Because of great differences in reading ability among junior-high students, various forms of individualized reading instruction can be used successfully to the benefit of the students. Within a given class there are several ways the teacher can direct the reading activities to meet the individual needs of students. For example, total group reading…

Education is the process of changing the behavior patterns of people. Educational objectives represent the kinds of behavior alterations that an educational institution wishes to bring about in its students. Administrators must be trained in the technique of organizing instruction that most successfully advances the educational goals of the…

The followup study reported here is a supplement to the process evaluation of the 1971-72 multiunit school organization/individually guided education (MUSE/IGE) nationwide installation effort by the Wisconsin Research and Development Center. The major purpose of the followup study was to determine basic implementation status in a number of schools…

As a supplement to Learning Activity Packages (LAP) of the earth-space project, this manual presents self-directed activities especially designed for individualized instruction. Besides an introduction to LAP characteristics, sets of instructions are given in connection with the metric system, the earth's dimensions, indirect evidence for atomic…

To meet the changing needs of its young people, Atlanta Public Schools searched for an organizational structure that would (1) permit more flexibility and individualization of instruction; (2) allow pupils to take one course, two courses, or a combination of courses and activities; (3) permit a wider selection of options; and (4) expand the school…

Described is a course development project in progress at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, that attempts to meet the individual needs and improve the attitudes of students in a large freshman biology course. Proposed is the implementation of the Phase Achievement System which involves the development of multi-concept level video-cassette lectures…