A School-Within-A-School program (SWAS) in Keokuk, Iowa, has proved successful in improving reading skills of about 145 seventh-grade pupils who are below the local 50th percentile in reading ability. The Title III/ESEA program utilizes a team teaching system which facilitates the teaching of reading skills in the content areas of mathematics,…

Education in America is still dominated by anachronisms, including the fixed 8:30 to 3:00 day, the lock-step grade level, the use of grades, the belief that students must learn from adults rather than students, that students and adults learn together, and especially a concern with the quantities of education rather than the qualities of education.…

A set of guidelines for implementing an individualized mathematics program to be utilized in a bicultural/bilingual setting were developed. At first, the design team sought to develop an all-purpose model complete with specifications of particular objectives, but the team soon recognized this goal to be unrealistic, since different school…

This curriculum guide describes a high school English program structured to meet the needs of the homeless boys of Boys Town, Nebraska. The program is individualized, designed to provide as much tutorial help as possible. The general goals of the program are to improve communication skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening. The guide…

Described are planning and operational phases of the Media Utilization Services for Teachers (MUST) Project, an effort to utilize media to individualize and improve instruction for educable mentally retarded (EMR) elementary school students. Aspects of the planning period (1969-70) treated include staffing and orientation procedures, limitation of…

These are the edited proceedings of the fifth annual conference of the National Association for the Individualization of Instruction (NAII). In addition to keynote and concluding speeches, the subjects of the talks included here are: the individual school and individualized learning; individualizing reading programs; teacher structure for…

Computer Assisted Remedial Education (CARE) I was developed to provide a college level computer-assisted instruction (CAI) course dealing with the identification and diagnosis of handicapping conditions in children. This third volume is a syllabus describing the content and objectives of each instructional frame of the course. The purpose and…

Abstracts of important research on cognitive style, which has implications for individualized instruction, are presented. Studies are presented which investigate the effect of early childhood coorelates of cognitive style, consider the impact of family environment on the highly intelligent and highly creative adolescent, examines similarities and…

This text of literary and colloquial Russian is intended for advanced students who have a functional knowledge of essential structures and basic vocabulary. The main emphasis is on syntactical structure, stylistics of both the written and spoken language, general semantics, and the use of idioms. Grammatical statements pertaining to an item of…

Reported was a project in which 60 educable mentally retarded (EMR) and 30 educationally handicapped (EH) elementary school students were placed in regular classrooms to determine whether they could be effectively educated in those settings. Effective education was defined in terms of improvement in reading, mathematics, student and teacher…

Composed of selected articles from recent issues of "Educational Technology" magazine, this volume in the review series covers individualizing instruction. Topic areas discussed in the articles include concepts of individualized instruction, student centered programs, systems for individualizing instruction, validation techniques, individualized…

A study was devised to investigate how media centers function within individualized instructional programs at selected elementary schools in Connecticut and to evaluate those media centers in relation to their school programs according to criteria developed by leaders in the field. Results of questionnaires showed 1) a relationship exists between…

Some aspects of a grass roots evaluation training program are presented. The program consists of two elements: (1) a series of 11 slide/tape individualized self-paced units, and (2) a six-week summer program. Three points of view on this program are: (1) University graduate programs in quantitative areas are usually consumed by specialists; (2)…

This study investigated differences in reading skills, scope of reading, and quality of reading between ninth and tenth grade students in a developmental English program and ninth and tenth grade students in a regular program. No differences in reading skill were found among either ninth or tenth grade students tested. There was little difference…

This document is a slightly revised version of author's Ph.D. Dissertation, "A Forecast of Responsibilities of Secondary Teachers of English 1970-2000 A.D., with Implications for Teacher Education" (ED 049 253). A study in two parts, Part I presents the need for future planning in education; discusses briefly methodologies for forecasting the…