All branches of the U.S. military are moving toward education and training that is tailored to meet individuals' needs wherever they are and whenever they are ready to learn. The result will be a culture of continuous, personalized learning with learner progress that is based on proficiency and a greater emphasis on technology-enabled immersive…

This article describes one school district department's efforts to train and support teachers in providing effective curriculum, instruction, and assessment methods to their students. This large, K-12 district embraces the spectrum of low to high SES schools, a large number of gifted students from diverse populations, and a variety of gifted…

Most classrooms in the U.S. are composed of students with different learning styles and experiences as well as different achievement levels (Ferguson, 2001). Personalized learning is a unique way of students' learning determined by their own learning style, pace, and needs. Focusing on individual differences, personalized instruction aims to…

This article, the third in a series of four installments, begins by discussing the need for paradigm change in education and for a critical systems approach to paradigm change, and examines current progress toward paradigm change. Then it explores what a learner-centered, Information-Age educational system should be like, including the APA…

A discussion of areas in which the authors believe that individualized instruction can be accomplished. Content level, scope of content and objectives, time requirements, materials and methods, and evaluation are the areas discussed. (HB)

A presentation of a conceptual model of individualization which provides a common language, a model which can be empirically validated and subsequently utilized to measure, evaluate and generate further research, and criteria to examine existing measurement surveys. (Author/HB)

A look at a project which aimed to determine whether an individualized reading program would improve pupil attitudes toward reading without significantly altering, in a negative way, the student achievement results. (Author)

A discussion of why new teaching methods that utilize the principles of individualized instruction are important. (HB)

A brief description of an instructional system based on a specific set of educational objectives" which has correlated to these objectives diagnostic instruments, teaching materials and methods." (Author/AA)