This is a progress report on the development of the Minnesota State Individually Guided Education (IGE) Network. The foreword states that the state IGE network came into being in July of 1973 in response to a need for the continuing awareness, implementation, and refinement of IGE on a statewide basis. Section 1 is an introduction which explains…

As health education moves toward a conceptual approach to teaching health concepts, concerned educators are carefully evaluating appropriate educational models which could be used. The Instructional Programming Model (IPM), which is at the heart of Individually Guided Education (IGE), specifically takes into account each pupil's beginning level of…

A structured observation-interview procedure to gather data on programs of individualization was developed. The procedure assessed the degree to which a particular program is individualized. Individualized instruction was defined as a method in which instructional practices are adapted to the requirements of each learner. The report describes the…

To increase the relevance of educational psychology the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin now offers one-credit, 5-week modules in its entire foundational area. The modules offer students a wide range of options and provide instructors greater flexibility and manageability and subject matter presentations. Before the new program…

This handbook offers suggestions to guide students in the skills of using media to make a maximum contribution to their intellectual and personal development. The ideas presented can be useful for media specialists and teachers in any grade or subject area. The teacher has the responsbility to: (1) be acquainted with the media center's resources,…

The introduction gives the rationale for individualized instruction, lists its advantages, outlines its history and current trends, discusses the role of the teacher in an individualized program, and reports on Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) programs developed at the Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburg. A…

The essence of PLAN, a Program of Learning in Accordance with Needs , is individualized instruction. To maximize individualization in instruction, allowances must be made for differences not only in amount, rate, and sequence of content presentation, but also in what content is to be chosen for presentation. Such a program obviously requires an…

A discussion of several shortcomings of phonics instruction is aimed at aiding teachers in avoiding such pitfalls as (1) following just one method of phonics instruction whether or not it is helpful to children, (2) treating all children alike and teaching them all the same phonetic elements at the same time, (3) continuing an approach regardless…

A programed format is used here to instruct teachers to write a prescription for a student using the Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) program. Prescriptions are to be written on the basis of the information provided about a hypothetical student and on a continual evaluation of his work. Prescriptions may be checked against samples…

The variability among students at the same grade level in the total number of Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) units in mathematics and reading mastered during the year 1967-68 is presented in statistical form. Tabulations of the degree of variance show that individualization does occur within the IPI program. (SP)

This document reports on a study that assessed the attitude of pre- and post-student teachers toward individualizing instruction. The subjects were 110 secondary school student teachers. The research instrument was the individualized Instruction Inventory, designed to provide a total individualization score and reveal attitudes toward…

The investigation was designed to evaluate the Basic Electricity and Electronics Individualized Learning System (BEEINLES) course in terms of its training effectiveness and of its technical, operational, and financial feasibility. The available evidence indicates that BEEINLES achieves its purported learning goals at least as effectively as the…