This article is based on a year-long study which centered on actual practices of individualization of instruction. Along with the various program thrusts identified in the study, factors which tend to facilitate or inhibit individualization are also revealed. (Editor)

Major theories of attitude change are explained: stimulus-response and reinforcement theory, functional theory, social judgment theory, and consistency theory. These theories are applied to the problems of influencing staff toward implementing a program of moral education. (Author/SJL)

The purposes of this article are to review the in-service teacher education literature and to present a survey instrument produced in a Teacher Corps project with respect to one aspect of needs assessment for in-service education, that of teachers' preliminary preferences and priorities. (Author)

Traces the development of the performance appraisal program of the Hicksville, New York, public school system, which was designed to improve instructional programs. Describes the strong opposition the program received from teachers. (FL)

Provides some suggestions for implementing the metric system including the need to establish a learning motivation for metrication within students. (RK)

The Instituto Fenix, a language learning school in Cuernavaca, Mexico, features oral language learning and a creative teaching technique to help language students to learn Spanish both effectively and quickly. (RK)

Describes the introduction of microcomputers into a junior high school and the responses of students and teachers. (FL)