The Youth Career Action Program is an example of a vocational-educational program that can be implemented within a large city in conjunction with a secondary school district. The YCAP Center provides a clearly designated place for hard-to-place young people--primarily those who are under-educated, economically disadvantaged, and have little…

An experimental project--Watch A Book--is being conducted to determine if public television (PTV) programs can be used in a video cassette format by individual viewers in a public library setting. The Public Television Library (PTL), the national center for the exchange of public television programs between PTV stations, has provided libraries in…

In recent years the many efforts to individualized instruction have been hampered by a lack of communication among professionals. The Descriptor for Individualized Instruction was developed to facilitate communication. It functions in several ways: 1) as a summary of a single program, 2) as a means of comparison between programs, 3) as a tool to…

Due to cost factors, an educational institution may be willing to finance an individualized instructional system for only part of its student population. Three approaches to selectivity in individualization have been suggested: individualizing the most advanced courses, the first-year courses, or selecting those students who can profit from an…

Project SKILL (Skill Development Through Individual Learning Levels) was developed and tested for three years at Midland School, Washington. This final report describes the context of the project, and provides a description of the scope of the project and an evaluation of its effectiveness. The goals of the project were to: (1) individualize…

This in-service training program, cooperatively developed by Haywood County, N.C. Public Schools and the Elementary Education Department of Western Carolina University, has six major points: 2) it is competency based; b) instruction is individualized; c) a team teaching approach is utilized; d) its design is a cooperative venture on the part of…

This critique of the Phi Delta Kappa Study Committee on Evaluation's report opens with a short description of the report; its definition of evaluation as "the process of delineating, obtaining, and providing useful information for judging decision alternatives," its detailed description of the decision-making process together with…

This informal report contains the findings and recommendations resulting from the field test of the Hooke Unit of the "Individualized Science" program. Data were collected from three schools. Because of an unusual number of weaknesses ranging from formal inconsistencies to manipulative deficiencies, it was concluded that the Hooke Unit is somewhat…

The Occupational Learning Center Program is an alternative high school experience for young people who are academically or socially unable to cope with the regular high school program. The curriculum includes development of basic skills, vocational development, personal and vocational counseling, and job placement and follow-up. Each student works…

The primary objective of the Title I Reading Project was to improve the reading skills of sixth- and seventh-grade underachievers. Treatment consisted of individualized programs based upon diagnostic testing in reading. Project classes in nine and 11 schools at the sixth- and seventh-grade levels, respectively were evaluated. Selected pupils were…

To successfully apply methods and materials to the student's individual needs, a teacher must be familiar with many reading methods and approaches. This book is designed to provide insights to nine different reading approaches: basal reading, language experience, individualized, linguistic, phonic, alphabetic, programed instruction, preschool…

The Personalizing Educational Prescriptions (PEP) Project has two main objectives: (1) the improvement of the diagnostic process with emphasis on the development of personalized educational prescriptions for all pupils; and (2) the improvement and expansion of multimedia services for all pupils. This report describes project goals, approaches, and…

The designs for measuring the effectiveness of personalized educational prescriptions in a pilot second-grade classroom for the first and second years are presented. The analysis of pretest and posttest data is also given. (See TM 001 363 for summary report of the project; for other related documents, see TM 001 160, 365-374.) (MS)

The pupil description worksheet consists of 134 items which can be checked by the teacher to develop a profile of the learner. Details for use of the worksheet and examples of resultant pupil profiles are given. (See TM 001 363 for summary of project; for other related documents, see TM 001 160, 364-374.) (MS)

THIS DOCUMENT LISTS THE ASSUMPTIONS UPON WHICH THE CAREER SELECTION EDUCATION PROJECT IS BASED AND THE CRITERIA FOR A SCHOOL'S PARTICIPATION IN THE PROJECT, AS DEVELOPED BY THE WESTERN STATES SMALL SCHOOLS PROJECT. THE OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT ARE TO AID STUDENTS MAKE REALISTIC CAREER SELECTIONS, DEVELOP SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES USEFUL IN MANY…