Considered the problems affecting the bilingual teacher, viewed in the light of the processes of individualization, as well as how these problems affect the education of the Mexican American. (Author/RK)

Reviews the individualized format of the Keller Plan and an audiotutorial approach. Outlines differences in student thinking strategies and explores the implications of these differences in the realms of teaching strategies and questioning techniques. Advocates improvement in assessing when each learner is ready for which content. (GS)

Equates academic grading and ranking in that the grading system establishes achievement standards. Explores the incompatibility of Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) and the letter grade system. Outlines the pressures applied to rank IPI students, explores time grading, considers IPI and motivation, and explains the important contribution…

The shape of all future and social structures may be determined largely by the emergence of a new kind of individual. (Editor)

ISP (Individualized Self-Pacing) is a program in operation in the business division at Fullerton College, (California), which allows not only for individualized instruction and self-pacing progress but free entry at any time during the semester. (Author)

Five areas are suggested for individualized instruction. (HB)

How open space classrooms allow for more effective individualized instruction. (HB)

Systems of programmed instruction appear to offer some solutions to common pedagogic problems. In this article, the author describes how one such system has been used in some higher education courses. (Editor)

Teachers serving children with disabilities in the regular preschool environment face challenges working within the typical small group instructional framework while systematically targeting specific skill acquisition goals. This paper describes a model integrated preschool/daycare program that uses a matrix-type process for determining the most…

This study evaluated the achievement effects of the Team-Assisted Individualization (TAI) mathematics program over a 24-week period. Involved were 1,317 students in grades 3, 4, and 5, with 700 students in 31 classes receiving TAI instruction and a control group of 617 students in 30 classes receiving other mathematics instruction on the same…

This presentation describes SuperPILOT, an extended version of Apple PILOT, a programming language for developing computer-assisted instruction (CAI) with the Apple II computer that includes the features of its early PILOT (Programmed Inquiry, Learning or Teaching) ancestors together with new features that make use of the Apple computer's advanced…

This chapter presents the theory and research underlying Merrill's concept of learner control as an instructional system. Three levels of learner control--content-control, display-control, and control of conscious-cognitive processing--and efforts to manipulate these variables are described, and a model of external and internal learner control is…

This short pamphlet promotes the Newspaper in Education (NIE) program. The pamphlet discusses reasons why educators should choose newspapers as instructional tools; how newspapers can be used for indivdualized instruction, reading, writing, computing, and critical thinking; what the research says about the use of newspapers in schools; what…

This book is designed to provide teachers with techniques for entering and modifying BASIC programs on Apple computers. The underlying theme is that a teacher need not become a programmer to benefit from being able to use and modify BASIC programs. The key to the successful use of software in the classroom is the ability to individualize software…