Describes a course designed to teach the fundamental microbiological principles common to all disciplines. The course is designed to meet individual student needs through self-directed lab work and various minicourses on topics in applied microbiology. (GS)

Reviews, summarizes, and evaluates the research on audio-tutorial (A-T) instruction and attempts to provide some direction for future studies. Studies reviewed are grouped by type and include comparative methods studies, trait-treatment interaction studies, and studies of instructional variables. (GS)

Presents an idea for office hour scheduling to increase instructor accessibility, describes a television series that serves as a basis for a nationwide credit course, and describes steps taken to individualize general chemistry at Catonsville Community College, Maryland. (GS)

Reports an experiment in individualizing the instruction in a U. S. history survey course at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas, begun during the summer session in 1972 and continued to the present with modifications. (Author/ND)

In designing a personalized system of instruction (PSI) personality course, the locus of control literature was surveyed in attempts to answer two questions: 1) Whether differences in locus of control would be predictive of PSI course performance; 2) whether changes would result after exposure to a PSI course. (Author/DEP)

Describes a program for individualizing directed reading-thinking activities. (RB)

Tells how to set up an individualized reading center to help improve the reading of students in all the content areas. (RB)

Introduction to a special section, "Adapted Physical Education. Other parts of the section are AA 501 889 through AA 501 894.

From a special section, "Adapted Physical Education. Also see AA 501 888, AA 501 890 through AA 501 894.