For young people with disabilities, crossing the bridge to adulthood will be empowering instead of intimidating--when their support teams know the essentials of effective transition planning. Now all the fundamentals of well-crafted transition plans are collected in one concise quick-guide, straight from one of the top authorities on helping young…

Discusses the neglect of the individual in the instruction process. (PG)

After a short characterization of individualized study systems (ISS) and a survey of the number and subject fields of individualized courses in the USA and Europe, the construction and evaluation of an ISS system in freshman mathematics at the Twente University of Technology, in the Netherlands, is discussed. (Editor)

External pacing and teacher supplementation of individualized instruction programs at the college level are found to be more effective than self-pacing and no teacher supplementation according to a review of fifty-seven research studies. (JLH)

A student at Empire State College of the State University of New York studying under a mentor like Sharon Villines is likely to get college credit in a wider variety of subject areas than a candidate for a traditional bachelors degree. (MM)

Examples of how Empire State College in New York uses learning contracts together with first results of students' evaluation of their use.

The Personalized System of Instruction, devised by Keller and Sherman in the 1960's, is a course format that has been winning wide acceptance among university teachers in the past few years. In this article we indicate the main advantages that we see in the format, the modifications that we have made to adapt it to our needs, and some of the…

Describes a self-instructional curriculum design and development course, based on a process model for individualizing instruction, suitedto the complex subject matter of higher education. The course is designed to train educational research and development personnel, teachers, administrators, and training specialists in the design of instructional…

This document describes a master of education program that teaches educators how to plan and implement individualized instruction following the Individually Guided Education (IGE) organizational model developed by the Wisconsin Research and Development Center and I/D/E/A/Kettering. Seven major components of IGE are incorporated into the ten-course…

Three uses of contracts at Michigan State's Justin Morrill College in cross-cultural field study, independent study, and community project field education.

In addressing the question of whether learner control of instruction can accommodate individual differences, this paper discusses some characteristics of learner control, including those conditions of learning which the student can control and those imposed by society and its institutions which are not under individual control. Studies of attempts…

IPI is defined as an individual program of studies tailored to each student's learning needs based on his competencies and his characteristics as a learner. (Author)

The contribution describes the course of an individualized foreign language program, the materials used and the statistical results obtained by those initiating the program. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)