Describes a Keller Plan program for teaching thermodynamics to college students. The outcome is improvement in study habits, and a more positive attitude towards examinations, but less performance in problem solving ability than via traditional approach. (Author/GA)

Provides a summary of the findings of nearly one hundred-fifty studies dealing with self-paced instruction S(PI) mathematics programs that involved students at the secondary level with some implications for practice. (Author/RK)

Describes the development of the Caring Community which attempted to establish a permanent self-help growth center on a college campus. (Author)

Describes the Elastically Structured Teaching (EST) method of instruction employed at West Virginia University which gives students more freedom than does traditional lecture, but which is not totally self paced. (SL)

Examined the role of attributions in initial and long-term smoking behavior change. Manipulated the externality of treatment. Subjects receiving nicotine gum were superior to the intrinsic self-help group in initial cessation but were inferior in maintaining abstinence. Subjects in the intrinsic self-help group made fewer external attributions for…

Implemented weekly self-help group for female anorexics and bulimics. Eighteen women who had consistently attended sessions evaluated group six months after it had begun. Found that self-help group benefited most members. Discusses findings in relation to curative factors of such groups. Offers suggestions for professionals interested in…

Directed self-help, mutual support groups are useful resources for the treatment of various populations victimized by sexual abuse. Several group models are presented. (Author)

Suggests a taxonomy of the grass roots movement and gives a general descriptive over view of the 60 groups studied with respect to origin, constituency, size, funding, issues, and ideology. (Author/AM)

Reports on the Center for Independent Living (CIL) in Berkeley, California, one of the most remarkable and probably the largest self-help enterprise of disabled people to have surfaced in the past 25 years. (Author/AM)

Discusses the use of self-paced study programs to teach physics to deaf students through lip movements, sign language, and fingerspelling. Describes several instructional problems encountered in the teaching-learning process. (CC)

Suggests the use of individually paced instruction, projects, and directed individual study as teaching methods to encourage students' responsibility for learning. (CC)

Analyzes a traditional and an innovative course in terms of learning principles, involving Erickson's management methods and Gagne's learning activities. Suggests that learning systems should be designed by applying all principles rather than emphasizing one or two of them. (CC)

Studied the effectiveness of applying Keller's personalized system of instruction (PSI) five consecutive times to the teaching of the switch principle in logic design problems. Concluded that the PSI method continued to be effective as compared with the lecture approach. (CC)

The organization of the self-help program for adolescents at Mendocino State Hospital is structured to provide a continuing growth experience for its residents through the strategic use of role relationships, status positions and other social reinforcers. (Authors)

Argues that low income home-ownership for the poor is unrealistic, and suggests that serious consideration be given to the manifold implications involved in declaring the total low-rent housing resources a public utility. (AF)