Asserts that tests of student performance in economics courses on the college level do not necessarily enable educators to infer anything about what students have learned or the manner in which they have learned it. Suggests that economics instruction be tailored to the individual, allowing for different learning styles. (Author/DB)

The effectiveness of current teaching practices and texts is examined and a more systematic method of teaching spelling is suggested. This approach provides for individualized instruction in problem areas that arise from the student's own classroom work rather than class instruction using words drawn from random lists. (PMJ)

A health education program is described in which students complete a unit of study by using their own initiative, participating in small group discussions, and maintaining individual contact with the teacher for guidance. (JD)

Suggests that videotapes of the teacher reading provides an easy independent activity for young children and also introduces them to many different types of story structures. (Author/FL)

No significant interaction was found between the field independent cognitive style and the level of guidance in mathematics instruction in a study involving prospective elementary school teachers. (Editor)

Many personalized system of instruction concepts can be applied to traditional courses. (BB)

Analysis of behavioral outcomes for 1999-2001 graduates of New York State's Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (n=9,524) showed significantly greater improvement for those taught individually (predominately white, upstate farm/town dwellers, higher family income and educational level). However, group instruction has increased because of…

Three instructional settings for interactive laserdisc are (1) individual, allowing self-pacing and flexible scheduling; (2) group, allowing interaction, simpler scheduling, and cost effectiveness; and (3) cooperative learning, which builds rapport, halves costs of individual training, and enables learning through discussion. (SK)

An individual instruction intervention with 13 high school students with learning disabilities improved: (1) metacognitive knowledge related to generating or adapting task-specific strategies, (2) ability to generate problem-solving strategies for novel problems, and (3) students' regular classroom grades. (DB)

Reports on a study designed to determine whether academic achievement of students taught in the cooperative group mastery mode would be different from the achievement of students who learn in an individualized method and to determine whether gains or losses would be seen in nonacademic outcomes such as social relations, self-esteem, and classroom…

Investigates and outlines three approaches for foreign language writing instruction. It is argued that a combination of computer-assisted language learning and conference teaching would best provide a maximally goal-directed writing course tailored to the specific needs and learning styles of individual students with authentic material input and…

A progressive time delay procedure in individual instructional sessions using massed-trial presentation was compared to distributed trials presented during transitions from one activity to another. Results with four preschool children with developmental delays indicated that both procedures were implemented reliably, were comparable in efficiency,…

This study examined the instructional contexts of six students with severe disabilities and six peers without disabilities enrolled in the same general education classes. The disabled students were much more likely than typically developing peers to have instruction focused exclusively on them and to receive one-to-one instruction. (Contains…

This study evaluated the effects of individually administered story mapping instruction on the reading comprehension of four upper-elementary school students with behavioral disorders. Story mapping instruction improved students' abilities to comprehend narrative text, especially their understanding of story settings, problems, and major events.…

Studied effects of instructional method (cooperative vs. individual) and learner control of options on achievement, option use, attitudes, and interactions of college students during computer-based instruction. Achievement benefits of cooperative learning may not apply when students are provided with an instructional environment with many…