The 1970s has become the time for reevaluating the intended purposes of tests, and for considering meaningful alternatives to the test score. Author considers the criterion-referenced versus the norm-referenced test. (Author/RK)

Article suggests solutions for making educational practice more relevant and beneficial for students. (RK)

Discusses the behavioristically- and humanistically-oriented positions in teacher education, and suggests an eclectic approach to methods course implementation applicable to both elementary and secondary level science. (CC)

Article introduces ways to improve reading at upper school levels and provides suggestions for avoiding the turmoil that reading has undergone in the past. (RK)

Author discusses and defines criterion tests in the context of classroom needs that have created much of the interest in the theory at this time. The primary source of interest is related to the growing implementation of individualized curricula. (Author/CB)

Specific programs, representing a variety of philosophical and curricular approaches, that have promise for various groups of slow learners are described by their directors. (LS)

Describes experience in teaching art in an open classroom for eighth grade students at Martin Kellogg Junior High School, Newington, Connecticut. (DS)

IGE, a new form of elementary school organization, has been revolutionizing U. S. classrooms. Its success has been attributed to a format that trys different kinds of teaching methods, techniques, and strategies with a single end - to develop the individual on his terms. (Author/RK)

Eight sample lesson plans for slow learners'' are used to illustrate a variety of approaches, objectives, topics, grade levals, and purposes. (LS)

Essay surveys some of the current philosophical research-based, and practical arguments for informal education and attempts to delineate its essential characteristics. (Editor/CB)

Outlines the development of a complex learning management system, which made individualized instruction programs easier and more economical to implement. (Author/RK)

Outlines a program for implementing individualized instruction. (RK)

With the aid of technology, a teaching-learning situation geared toward the student as an individual has been under development for several years at the Music Library Laboratory Center of John J. Duggan Junior High School, Springfield, Massachusetts. (Author)