This paper examined the performance of kindergarten and first grade children in an inner-city school during the first full year of the Primary Education Project (PEP) Quantification (early mathematics) curriculum. The curriculum was based on a hierarchically sequenced set of objectives and accompanying criterion-referenced placement and diagnostic…

In this collection of position papers and descriptive materials, staff members and consultants of the Comprehensive School Mathematics Program (CSMP) outline the philosophy and goals of this curriculum development project. Rejecting the notion that mathematics should be taught as a collection of facts to be mastered, these writers claim the goal…

One of several possible systems for delivering special education services, a consulting teacher approach seeks to manage and educate handicapped children in regular elementary classrooms. Vermont has adopted this approach for certain handicapped children because it is less costly and disruptive, avoids labeling and extensive testing, provides…

This article presents a detailed description of an individualized reading program developed at Ohlone College in Fremont, California. The program is designed to help students become independent learners in their content area courses. It consists of three interrelated components: a 60-page "Tutor's Handbook," a series of videotaped study skills…

The Urban Adult Learning Center's (UALC) primary goal is to improve and expand the educational and employment opportunities for all residents in the Portland Model Cities target area who are 16 years of age or older and who have not reached the eighth grade educational level. The Phase Two Foundation section reviews historical background and goals…

Textbooks emphasizing visual elements in exposition can be enriched using crisp, concise, audio-taped commentaries to focus attention on essential points in each illustration. These text aids, packaged in the convenient form of cassettes (usually one per chapter), have a number of obvious advantages: (1) any teacher can prepare them; (2) they are…

This issue of the "Illinois English Bulletin" is divided into 30 sections which discuss individualizing instruction. Some of the topics included are: the advantages of individualizing instruction in general, the writing of daily learning objectives for use by the classroom teacher, individualizing instruction at Lincolnland Community College,…

A novel approach to the collection and utilization of program treatment information that quantifies innovative educational practices is described. Data was collected from groups of students within grade and within subject matter area who were exposed to the same program characteristics. These flexibly defined "educational experience…

This paper reports on an on-going experiment in computer-aided language instruction. In 1972, a class of beginning German students at the Duluth campus of the University of Minnesota volunteered to test two pedagogic theories: (1) Could a computer-aided course be used by a class and an instructor who knew nothing of computers and who had to rely…

To assist in formulating design for mediated instruction, a series of guidelines were drawn up and validated, based on procedures developed for Project ASERT in Lincoln, Nebraska Public Schools. Eight steps are identified and detailed--design management, identifying target population, discovering learner needs, setting goals, establishing…

This pamphlet contains five reports on different aspects of the Oakleaf Small Computer Project. The major objective of the project was to individualize elementary mathematics instruction by using a fully-integrated system of computer-assisted instruction, evaluation, and class management. The curriculum used was based on IPI Mathematics. The…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves 10,000 students in grades one through eight who live in neighborhoods that are serviced by schools receiving Title I funds. The program, begun in 1971, is designed to improve students' reading skills and attitudes toward reading. The reading improvement teams (RIT) provide…

It is posited that primary desired functions of an educational system are relevance, effectiveness, and efficiency, and that the objective of educational system design is state-of-the-art optimization of these functions. Based on this view, gross structures of the educational system and of associated educational architectural models addressing…

This paper briefly summarizes the findings of a study of the effects of the Follow Through Primary Education Project-Individually Prescribed Instruction (PEP-IPI) model. The project was designed to provide individualized instruction (with emphasis on perceptual and motor abilities, language concepts, classifying skills and reasoning abilities) to…

To compare the instructional effectiveness of published programed instructional materials with individualized instruction, 376 of a possible 1,500 students enrolled in seven curriculums in two area vocational schools were involved in an 18-month experimental study. The 184 students in the control group and 192 students in the experimental group…