This research determined the viability of three alternative teaching designs which encouraged student involvement and inquiry activity: a) teacher-guided, b) group-planned, and c) individually oriented. Each of the three designs was assigned to two sections of an educational psychology course. The remaining two sections served as a control group.…

The Continuous Progress Program of the Board of Education for the City of Chicago focuses on the improvement of education for the individual child and the upgrading of educational practices and techniques. The philosophy of the program is based on the individualized rate of teaching and learning of the pupil. Its planning and organization is…

This study was made to determine if there is a difference in attitudes between average IQ but low achievers in two different school settings. The study was conducted with students in a northern Illinois school which features a school-within-a-school as well as a traditional setting. A questionnaire was administered. This study seems to indicate…

This study was conducted in an elementary school where the Wisconsin Design for Reading Skill Development had been implemented and developed for several years. Its aim was to determine what happened to individual children during reading instruction when the Design was being systematically used. A case history approach was used, and the school was…

The Educational Research and Development Unit (ERDU) of the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie-Mellon University was formally established in January 1970 by a 5-year grant from the Ford Foundation. This report describes the research and development activities in which ERDU was engaged from January to December 1972 for the…

This first volume of a series on individualizing and humanizing the learning process is aimed at trainers of teachers and teachers in training and considers identifying and measuring intellectual and non-intellectual processes contributing to creativity. Emphasis is placed upon the importance of the teachers observations. New techniques are…

This manual for administrators and instructors accompanies the Learning Individualized for Canadians (LINC) courses of individually prescribed instruction in communications and in mathematics for adult learners. Information is given on the background of the LINC program, objectives, components, the individualized process, procedures for curriculum…

A program is described which combines multi-level grouping and individualized progress curriculum through teacher-prepared Learning Activity Packages (LAPs) in different subject matter areas. The organization and implementation of the program are discussed in detail, including goals of the program; placement of students at appropriate levels;…

The Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) program provides instruction based on specific objectives correlated with placement instruments, teaching methods, and individualized materials for wide ranges of differences in the classroom. The program was implemented in the five elementary schools of Lowndes County, Georgia, in 1970-72. This study…

Some 65 foreign language teachers in California participated in a workshop designed to give teachers the necessary skills and background to individualize their teaching methods. The report contains a variety of materials used in the workshop, including: (1) a summary report of the workshop, (2) workshop experiences, and (3) an evaluation of the…

A new conceptual approach to the analysis of educational systems is defined. It centers attention on the instructional management decision making process, which serves to mediate the activities of the students and learning environment, so that much of the present confusion surrounding the design of educational systems is eliminated. Instructional…

The author summarizes his observations of interactions in two classes of an individualized, self-paced, laboratory-based high school science course for students who normally do not take physics or chemistry. Based on these and other observations of classroom behavior of teachers and pupils the author postulates that two agendas are operative in…

To meet the needs of students reading below their potentials, teachers must learn more about the reading process, become more diagnostic in determining pupils' strengths and weaknesses, and couple their knowledge of reading with an understanding of pupil deficiencies to plan a program to improve the child's ability to read. Diagnosis, though…

This report outlines the rationale by which behavioral objectives for Intermediate Science Curriculum Study (ISCS) materials have been generated and their subsequent use in developing the ISCS student self-assessment system. The ISCS project is designed to develop, test, and disseminate a system of individualized science instruction for grades…

It is pointed out that education should be geared to the individual student; yet implementation of individualized programs has been slow. A set step in the area of individualized instruction should be the development of an appropriate methodology for recording and analyzing a student's performance. This paper is an attempt to provide the recording…