Contends that if school systems and their professionals carry out their legal and professional responsibilities to their handicapped students the likelihood of judicial intervention is minimized. (Author/MLF)

A short curriculum outline and suggested readings are offered for the physical education teacher who will be dealing with physically handicapped children in the class. (JD)

The article reviews the characteristics generally identified as common to competency-based education and offers planning suggestions for teachers: (1) prestated and published performance objectives, (2) accountability, (3) personalized and individualized instruction, and (4) delivery systems, which provide several modes of instruction pertinent to…

The article gives a checklist of questions for teachers to ask in the functional assessment of learning disabled children, and gives guides in decisions on instructional prescriptions. (PHR)

Explains how videotape technology has been used in physics instruction, and that the original design which was intended for independent and self-paced instruction has been broadened to include other areas. (GA)

Describes a personalized system of instruction that has been tried in India and its advantages. Shows that students' responses were favorable to this type of instructional approach. (GA)

Describes the use of "Personalized System of Instruction" (P.S.I.) in the second semester of a first-year high school Chinese class that contained students of widely divergent ability levels. (KM)

Describes a unique approach for teaching biology to non-majors. The system used is an adaptation of the audio-tutorial approach and the use of teaching modules called "concept-paks." (VT)

Discusses the rationale for and results of an undergraduate course in calculus using modularized mastery level instruction. The salient features of the present program are instructor controlled learning with modularized materials, immediate results on quizzes, and lecture-recitation sessions. (VT)

Presents an overview of the revitalized emphasis on individualized instruction and competency based education as a means extending existing on-campus college and university programs to adult students in an off-campus format, and discusses current operating models of individualized instruction. (Author)

Results of tests administered after one year of college chemistry do not reveal significant differences between students enrolled in the Keller plan of personalized instruction and those students in traditional lecture-discussion instruction. (CP)

A brief description of the operation of Euclid (a theorem-proving computer program written by the author) is given and directions to be taken in its continuing development are indicated. (MN)

Reviews the use of the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) in engineering education. (SL)

Fills the cells of a 3 X 3 matrix with individualized tasks. One dimension is based on Bruner's three modes of learning, the other on Bloom's recall, application, and creativity levels of abstraction. Using the grill, a self-instruction approach to learning is described. (CP)

Discusses three basic assumptions from which individualized instruction is derived and three critical attributes which can define it. Some problems accompanying the development of individualized instruction are considered and five signs of educational development resulting from the use of individualized instruction are outlined. (RK)