Two conferences brought together educators in the state of New York with an interest in individualized instruction. The conferences report consists of five major papers. Individualized teaching practices are compared with those of non-individualized education. A list of the characteristics of an ideal individualized school is given. Seventeen…

These proceedings of the Second Annual Three-Site National Conference on Instructional Assessment provide the agenda, an outline of a self-directed tour of the Meramec Learning Laboratories, "Individualized Instruction in Community Colleges, a Status Report" by Walter E. Hunter, and the keynote presentation, "Why Reinvent the Wheel?" by George H.…

Summarizes the activities undertaken in the 1973 annual conference of the Education Group of the Institute of Physics, including discussions on effective teaching and exhibits brought by member participants. Included are descriptions of the Keller instruction system and the small group method. (CC)

The conference proceedings include seven papers dealing with reading problems of emotionally disturbed children. Emotional resistance to reading is discussed by Jules Abrams, a psychiatrist. The purposes of testing and the problem of labeling are touched upon by Clifford Kolson. Some practical suggestions of classroom techniques for combining a…

Papers presented at the Third Annual International Institute on the Community College are provided. In these papers, many facets of accountability are discussed: goal-setting, assumptions about learning, instructional modes, educational management practices, student development, instructional resources, and the systems approach. In addition, panel…

Some 26 abstracts of papers presented at the Conference are compiled in this report. Topics include papers by noted specialists on: (1) programed language instruction (2) Milivox, (3) individualized instruction, (4) Spanish phonetics, (5) linguistic analysis, (6) semantics, (7) the comparative in English, (8) inflectional and derivational…

Section contains notes on "Procedural Steps in Individualizing FL Instruction," a report on the Stanford Conference on Individualization of Instruction in Foreign Languages (Stanford University, May 6-10, 1971), and "A Comment on Including Culture in an Individualized Foreign Language Program." (DS)

Summarizes talks of five speakers at Vanderbilt University's symposium on foreign language teaching: "Exploring a Partnership: Computer-Assisted Instruction in Foreign Languages"; "Individualized Foreign-Language Instruction"; "Language Learning: To What Undergraduate Purpose?"; "The Training of Graduate Students as Teachers--A Proposal";…

The proceedings of the annual convention (1973) of Vermont behavioral educators contain 27 case studies of educational programs applying behavior theory to create an individualized, data-based, and accountable school system in which handicapped and normal students are integrated. The case studies, which are grouped according to school districts,…

Thirty-five manuscripts from a national conference dealing primarily with Personalized System of Instruction are collected and grouped by topic. Areas covered include application of individualized teaching to new content areas, experimental comparisons of individualized procedures and traditional methods, students teaching other students, academic…

Thirteen papers from the 1971 Auburn University Reading Conference reported on various aspects of individualized reading, including informal diagnosis of reading skills, the role of oral and silent reading, classroom organization, media and materials for teaching reading, affective behavior related to reading, simulation games and their uses in…

This book is the first and largest volume of a three-part work that constitutes the proceedings of the 1966 International Reading Association conference. The papers in this book represent broad viewpoints of reading at all instructional levels and are presented in the following sections: the presidential address and other major addresses, ten…

Adaptation of computers to instructional use in academic settings, the military, and industrial training provided the focus for this conference on computer managed instruction (CMI). Part 1 of the proceedings contains an orientation to computer managed instruction; Part 2 consists of brief descriptions of 23 CMI systems; and Part 3 is a summary of…

This monograph presents the papers and addresses of the Sixth Rochester Institute, an annual joint staff development effort of Rochester Community College and the University of Minnesota. W. Wesley Tennyson and Sharon Strom present a case for career development education to be used as a fulcrum to swing education further towards humanistic…

The reports from the 1971 Annual Meeting of the Washington Association of Foreign Language Teachers are presented in this compilation of nine abridged speeches given at the meeting. The papers include: (1) "The Three Dimensions of Successful Teaching," (2) "State of the Profession," (3) "Individualizing Instruction in Some Puget Sound Schools,"…