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,…

This report details the research and development effort to examine the feasibility of teaching the phonics segment of the Navy's Academic Remedial Training program by computer driven voice synthesizer. The criterion for feasibility was that the computer-assisted course produce ART graduates who read as well as students who receive a comparable…

These quarterly reports for June and September 1979 are two in a series concerned with describing a research project to design, test, and evaluate a machine intermediary which teaches and assists users of the DIALOG system. Report No. 5 explains in detail the instructional aspect of the Individualized Instruction for Data Access (IIDA) project and…

REPORTS ON PROCEDURES USED TO DISCOVER WHAT MODIFICATIONS WOULD MORE EFFECTIVELY PREPARE TEACHERS FOR WORK IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED AREAS WERE PRESENTED. A STUDY OF THE PROBLEMS OF BEGINNING TEACHERS IN A DEPRESSED-AREA JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL SHOWED THAT PROBLEMS AROSE FROM THE TEACHERS' LACK OF UNDERSTANDING OF LOWER CLASS…

ALTHOUGH THERE WAS A DECREASE IN MIGRANT LABOR, THE NUMBER OF MIGRANT CHILDREN ATTENDING 6-WEEK SCHOOL PROGRAMS IN 1962 INCREASED OVER THE PREVIOUS YEAR. THE SUMMER SCHOOL CENTERS WERE SPONSORED BY THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND WERE REIMBURSED BY THE STATE. THE 1961 MIGRANT SCHOOLS WERE GUIDED BY A BASIC PHILOSOPHY WHICH STRESSED THE NEED FOR AN INTENSE…

AS STRESSED AND ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT THE DISCUSSION, AN INDIVIDUALIZED LEARNING PROGRAM OR ASSIGNMENT MUST INCLUDE OBJECTIVES WHICH ARE EXPRESSED IN TERMS OF SPECIFICALLY OBSERVABLE BEHAVIOR. THESE OBJECTIVES FALL WITHIN FOUR CATEGORIES OF INTELLECTUAL TASKS--KNOWLEDGE, COMPREHENSION, APPLICATION, AND INVENTION. TO ASSESS A STUDENT'S ACHIEVEMENT…

To determine if computer technology could improve shipboard instruction and training, an Automated Shipboard Instruction and Management System (ASIMS) was used for computer managed instruction (CMI) about the USS GRIDLEY during 1975-76. ASIMS comprised a NOVA 1200 minicomputer with support peripherals, a Computer Integrated Instruction (CII)…

The intent of this booklet is to stimulate interest in individualized education, to promote study of it, and to encourage educators to experiment with the idea in ways appropriate to their local situations. Chapter 1 analyzes the concept of individualization. The chapter includes paradigms that may be helpful for examining some of the current…

This document contains student progress checks designed for use with individualized modules 1-14 in the military-developed course on basic electricity and electronics. The course is one of a number of military-developed curriculum packages selected for adaptation to vocational instructional and curriculum development in a civilian setting. One…

This individualized learning module on induction is one in a series of modules for a course in basic electricity and electronics. The course is one of a number of military-developed curriculum packages selected for adaptation to vocational instructional and curriculum development in a civilian setting. Four lessons are included in the module: (1)…