A Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) is based on four principles: it is (1) mastery oriented, (2) individually paced, (3) student proctored, and (4) includes lectures for stimulation and motivation. Advantages of PSI for vocational education courses are noted. (LRA)

Describes Florida's Individualized Manpower Training System (IMTS) which combines expanded curriculum (basic education, complementary skills, and work evaluation components), learning resource centers, and management procedures to assist students with basic skill deficiencies. Student motivation, open-entry open-exit study and minimum duplication…

Describes a project that used task cards to give students meaningful and interesting practice in using location skills in the content area of science. (FL)

Investigated the appropriateness of audiotutorial instruction for a wide spectrum of students. Questions whether there are significant relationships between personal traits of variables of achievement and success, whether there is a different set of personal traits for high and low achievers, and how well a battery makes ex post facto predictions.…

The role certain educational innovations played in maintaining balance during times of strife over school desegregation in the South is discussed. (JD)

Strategies for adapting instructional support and learning incentives were applied separately and in combination to a college-level lesson on mathematical rules. Adaptations were based on indiviual students' pretest scores. Adaptation of support improved performance significantly when compared with standard support. Incentive effects, however,…

An effective competency based teacher education instructional system should be able to determine the competencies necessary for teacher effectiveness, design reliable assessment instruments, and gear instruction to individual student capabilities. (JN)

The authors offer a plan enabling prospective doctoral students in education to design their own programs, which enhances student-university relationships and personalizes programs of study. (Editor)

Suggests ways of making the private music lesson more enjoyable for the young student and for motivating students to practice and perform. (SJL)

Summarizes a study made to determine if a difference in organizational climate was discernible between Individually Guided Education (IGE) schools and open-space schools. (Author/MLF)

In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, teachers and parents use a kindergarten screening and academic readiness intervention program that nips potential learning problems in the bud. (Editor/SJL)

Variables in student performance--including instructional mode, conceptual approach, perceptual preference, curricular interest, time preference, and counseling needs--are discussed; and the author suggests that alternative schooling which takes these variables into account for individualization would serve gifted students as well as slow learners…

Individual and group Level of Use interviews measured the effectiveness of a 7 week inservice program designed to teach eight regular elementary physical education teachers to individualize instruction for handicapped students. Among findings were that five teachers became users of individualized instruction and that each teacher adapted to change…

This examination of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) covers early predictions concerning CAI, the variables that have been addressed by CAI research, guidance in identifying the effectiveness of CAI, and future directions for CAI in education. (MER)

In this study, learning was maximized by matching students with a certain learning style with complementary instructional strategies. (MM)