A 30-item questionnaire on attitudes about individualized instruction was administered to 31 high school principals, 42 teacher educators, 28 superintendents, and 39 elementary school principals, in Missouri. Results revealed that there was a fairly favorable overall belief that individualization of instruction holds promise. Most of the groups…

To help assess a school's readiness for individualized instruction, the author devised the School Climate Assessment of Learning Environment (SCALE-I), a research instrument comprising 30 belief statements about aspects of individualized instruction. Informants respond to the belief statements on an attitude scale. The instrument was tested on 36…