This paper explores one-to-one teaching in an academy of music as culturally constituted. Taking Foucault's concept of discursive practice as a point of departure, the practice of two instrumental teachers is analysed and compared with regards to how the teachers adopt professional discourses to construct their teaching in quite distinct ways, and…

Five primary classrooms with educable mentally retarded (EMR) students were observed during four 20 minute periods to determine the number of correct oral responses given by the students during group instruction. The number of correct responses per child per minute was compared to those of five EMR children placed in a one-to-one instructional…

The essential components of self-paced systems are frequently prohibitive in cost for implementation for all students. Selection of students who can profit most from individualized programs can be made by choosing students in upper and lower extremes in mental ability who possess certain elements in their cognitive styles. (Author)

Author undertook a detailed investigation of the phenomena of skill learning with the goal of isolating those factors that were relevant to the learning of typewriting. (Author/RK)

Several methods for creating and maintaining a learning environment, in which the political science students at the undergraduate level can receive individual treatment even in large classes, are described. (Author/KM)

This study investigated the effects of mental ability level on problem solving behavior of individuals and dyads. The problem (riddle of the death of the Wooly Mammoth) is open ended, data rich and presented by computer. Significant interactions between grouping (individual and dyad) and ability (above average, above + below average and below…

THIS PROJECT ASSESSED THE RELATIVE SKILLS OF PRACTICING PHYSICIANS IN SOLVING DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT PROBLEMS PRESENTED IN A CONFERENCE FORMAT BEFORE AND AFTER TWO-WAY RADIO INSTRUCTION. TEST RETEST RELIABILITY DATA FOR CORRECT DIAGNOSES YIELDED SIGNIFICANT CHANGES BEFORE AND AFTER INSTRUCTION. SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES IN PHYSICIAN CHARACTERISTICS…

This four-part document examines the efforts of the University of Wisconsin/Sears-Roebuck Foundation (UW/SRF) Individually Guided Education (IGE) Teacher Education Project. It is stated that the project was organized to initiate perservice and graduate programs, and thereby to encourage the development of self-renewing systems of education, from…

A very advanced electronic instructional system is being designed and constructed which will be used in dental laboratory courses. The system will include 100 student stations, each with three-dimensional video, both motion and still, and live three-dimensional equipment of a unique design. Instruction may be programed in multiple-track or…