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)

The article illustrates a way typing students, with the guidance of a competent teacher, can individually progress toward prescribed competencies with the typewriter. The method consists of five easy steps: plan, orient, review, guide, and evaluate. (Author)

Brief profiles of 51 exemplary innovative schools are presented in this document. Many of the schools belong to the Associated Network of Individually Guided Education (IGE) Middle, Junior, and Senior High Schools. A 1978 conference of IGE schools identified successful practices for individualizing schooling related to one or more of the following…

This guide gives specific guidelines for a five-step system to install effectively an individualized mathematics program. These steps are: (1) use of a planning model described; (2) organization of resources available; (3) installation of an environment in which individualization is possible; (4) use of diagnostic and prescriptive teaching; and…

This progress report describes the first year of a 4-year project to design and develop an educational telecommunications system for Alaska. Called "Educational Telecommunications for Alaska" (ETA), the project centers around a statewide computer network, linking every school district and regional resource center to each other and to the…

Inservice training procedures used to implement the Teaching Resource Classroom Model (a program for moderately, severely, and profoundly handicapped students) were evaluated with 94 teachers and administrators. The model is composed of the following 10 components: delivery of appropriate cues and consequences, assessment of student skill level,…