The effects of Teams-Games-Tournament (TGT), an instructional technique involving student teams and learning games, and individualized instruction were compared in 39 students (in grades 7-9) experiencing problems with human relationships and academic tasks. Results confirmed hypotheses that TGT would exceed individualized instruction on social…

Mapping the cognitive style of individual learners is one attempt to gain more precision and accountability in solving learning problems in education. Cognitive Style Mapping is a diagnostic procedure. It is designed to determine how people derive meaning from the world around them, specifically how individuals encode, process and decode meanings.…

The purpose of this paper is to examine the perceptions and opinions of the 128 students who have matriculated in a competency-based reading methods course at Rhode Island College. The course presently consists of 54 objectives in 14 instructional modules. Alternate learning activities and various postassessment options are listed in each module,…

Standardized achievement tests may not be an accurate diagnostic tool for measuring individual pupil achievement in reading. Criterion-referenced tests, designed to measure specific goal mastery, can provide valuable information that standardized forms cannot. In addition, criterion-referenced tests give teachers the diagnostic tools needed to…

Graduate students do need and can benefit from instruction in the basis of composition, but the definition of what each student basically needs will vary so greatly that individual instruction is the only meaningful way to meet those needs. The demand for such instruction spurred the development of a graduate course at North Texas State University…

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) project developed 17 courses in various fields at the University of Texas from January 1, 1973 through December 31, 1975. Data collected on comparisons between PSI students and control students indicated that: (1) PSI students learned as much or more than others; (2) Higher…

This developmental applied research project aims to provide an effective means of orienting non-traditional students, especially minorities and females, to engineering technology, and particularly to basic materials science. The instructional system adopted involves self-paced, individualized instruction, breaking the technical education component…

Described is a teacher development center, an inservice program designed to develop competencies for individualizing instruction in 73 regular and special educators attending 2-week training sessions. It is explained that training focused on 12 content modules (including teacher communication and guidance, classroom management, and organization of…

In order to determine how the Technical Nursing Program at Florida Junior College (FJC) was contributing to the success or failure of its graduates, a questionnaire was sent to 30 FJC graduates who had taken the State Board Examination between December 1972 and December 1973 and who were locally employed. All of these students had been exposed to…

This study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of a self-developed audio-tutorial (A-T) system in biology at the college level. The basic design of the study was a variation of a compromise experimental group-control group design. The control group was instructed by lecture-laboratory method, and the experimental by the A-T system. Facutal…

The "Programed Math Tutorial" is an approach to individualizing instruction through the use of tutoring by paraprofessionals and peer teaching. Designed for use in the primary grades, the program incorporates training tutors in the determination of acceptable or unacceptable answers. Tutors are given detailed instruction on the use of materials…

At the North Campus of Florida Junior College at Jacksonville, a Developmental Education Program has been initiated to serve the needs of students entering college with deficient skills. Individualized instruction, open-ended courses, counseling to improve student self-concept, performance objectives, and objective evaluations are ingredients…

The sixteen chapters of this book provide the core material for the Elements of Mathematics Program, a secondary sequence developed for highly motivated students with strong verbal abilities. The sequence is based on a functional-relational approach to mathematics teaching, and emphasizes teaching by analysis of real-life situations. This text is…

This manual is designed for use in inservice work with teachers preparing to use the Comprehensive School Mathematics Program (CSMP) in grades K-2, and as a resource guide for later use. In it, the nonstandard topics used in the CSMP primary program are developed through discussion and a variety of exercises. These topics include the minicomputer…

This book is intended as a practical guide for the preservice and in-service education of teachers. The first chapter describes current practices in marking and reporting student progress. This is followed by guidelines for improving marking and reporting systems (Chapter 2), methods of assigning norm-referenced letter grades (Chapter 3), the use…