A system for individualized instruction is outlined, and stress is placed on growth environments and administrator and teacher responsibilities. This open problem-solving system is one in which decisions are made according to established goals. It is made up of the following stages: (1) establishing the ideal base; (2) establishing a reality base;…

This teacher's management guide accompanies a set of five booklets which comprise the basic curriculum for "Mathematics Laboratories for Disadvantaged Students," a nationally validated Title III ESEA project. The project was planned for students who are below their expected achievement level in mathematics. Included in the management…

This monograph is a report on an international discussion of the desirability of autonomous work on the part of students. The rationale for autonomous work is twofold. First, this approach should lead the pupil to think about the learning process and take an active and responsible share in it. This will promote the development of personality by…

An Individualized Instructional Systems Program is a proqram that enables students to: (1) have available in writing the behavioral objectives they try to attain; (2) progress at their own individual rate while completing the required tasks, activities, and objectives of the course; (3) spend as much time as needed to complete the objectives of…

A sample of 211 inner-city fifth- and sixth-grade students participated in a study of the effects on achievement and independence of an individualized instructional program using multisensory, multimedia learning centers. Experimental and control groups differed in method of instruction but not in content covered. Results from pre- and post-course…

The project sought to determine whether certain National Institute of Education (NIE)-funded career education programs provided for personalization of instruction and whether they avoided tracking students into narrowly constrained areas. The first chapter discusses individualized instruction in historical and current perspective and presents…

To investigate the affective and cognitive gains produced in an auto-tutorial world civilizations course, two groups of students were compared. A traditionally-taught (TT) section of 145 students and an auto-tutorially (AT) taught section of 140 were given pre- and posttests and used the same text and Modular Learning Program. The TT section…

It is important that instructional materials in a school library/media center contribute to students' learning. A series of experimental units of course work was prepared for high school students by a school library/media specialist. Contents were preselected to enable students to fulfill cited objectives but sufficiently open-ended so that…

Project Learning Experiences Adjusted to Recognized Needs (LEARN), funded under Title III of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, as amended, has had three thrusts: (1) a diagnose strengths and weaknesses of individual students, academic, social, psychological, and physical, in designated grades; (2) to prescribe programs of learning…

An effective and almost cost-free approach to the identification and amelioration of critical needs and problems of pupils, an approach developed and tested by the Consortium of Laboratory Schools of the Academic Affairs Conference of Midwestern Universities, is designed to help teachers identify through a special survey instrument the needs and…

A survey was conducted to determine attitudes of administrators, teachers, students, and parents of students in schools using the Institute for Development of Educational Activities, Inc. (I/D/E/A) Change Program for Individually Guided Education (IGE). The study took over two years, and reached a sample of the 1,200 schools in 36 states.…

This document is a comparison of three reports on secondary education prepared by the following: (1) the California State Department of Education's Commission for Reform of Intermediate and Secondary Education (RISE), 1975; (2) the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), Task Force on Secondary Schools in a Changing Society,…

Based on surveys of military student attitudes toward American Preparatory Institute (API), the study provided information about competency-based, continuous-progress high school level instruction at API, a private high school for military adults. Students were predominantly male enlisted military personnel, the mean age was approximately 20…

Intelligent computer assisted instruction (CAI) systems are exemplified by several tutorial systems including Tutor-SCHOLAR, Map-SCHOLAR, NLS-SCHOLAR and SOPHIE. The original SCHOLAR program structure made it possible to model the way human tutors interact with students. Further analyses of tutoring and teaching strategies led to the development…

This study compares traditional lecture (TL) and personalized system of instruction (PSI) teaching methods for an introductory criminal evidence class at Cerritos College (California) during the 1974-75 academic year. The subjects were 189 lower division students, the vast majority of whom were declared law enforcement majors. Since both sections…