A personalized competency-based instructional strategy was designed and evaluated as an alternative to the traditional teacher-directed method. There was no difference in mean gain scores between the two groups for cognitive objectives, but the experimental strategy was superior in teaching psychomotor competencies. Student responses to the PSI…

Describes an introductory chemistry course presented at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in which students meet four times a week in classes of 25 each with a teaching assistant to view lectures via videocassette. (SL)

Describes an electrical engineering program in which assignments have been computerized to individualize out-of-class work. (SL)

Presents the Human Sciences Program (HSP) developed by the Biological Sciences Curriculum (BSCS) staff. The program is described as modular, activity-centered, personalized, interdisciplinary, and flexible. The article also presents the HSP classroom trial schools and the dissemination centers. (HM)

Seeks to provide brief accounts of significant current innovation and research in Australia, and, in some issues, also in Papua New Guinea. Examines the television viewing habits of sixth grade children, a learning environment for open or individualized classrooms, and describes an innovative art program. (Author/RK)

Teacher's interactions with 219 eighth-grade students were compared to personality characteristics of the students, using factor and regression analysis. It was found that teachers more closely supervised both the aggressive and the apprehensive students. Teachers presented clear intellectual challenges to the self-assured and the bright students.…

Self-Paced Learning Activity Guides (SPLAGs), which have been used in typewriting classes at Oklahoma State University for four years, are described in terms of organization, suggestions for classroom procedures, management of paper work, solution booklet utilization, testing procedures, and student reactions. (BM)

A three-year evaluation of the Learning Research and Development Center's program of individualized instruction was conducted in seven Follow Through sites and three Pittsburgh area schools. To improve such empirical evaluation studies, researchers should gather data according to a theory, increase the number of classrooms surveyed, and gather…

Five sets of computer-assisted instruction programs support undergraduate curricula at St. John's. They give the individual student an opportunity to test his familiarity with fundamental drug nomenclature in an engaging, self-directed manner. (LBH)

Describes an action approach to teaching reading to black children which matches a black learning style. (MKM)

Describes the Summer Reading Institute, given in 1977 in metropolitan Washington, D.C. (MKM)

In this experiment the teaching of mathematics by individualized instruction to teacher trainees was tested. (Author/GC)

Twenty-four vocational and technical education teachers learned how to individualize instruction by participating in project ACTIONS (Activities for Career Teachers to Individualize Occupational Needs of Students), a curriculum development project sponsored by the Department of Occupational Education at the University of Delaware. Trainees learned…

Criticisms of the printed medium of instruction are made with the implication that a system which relies upon one medium of instruction is unlikely to provide either the kind of resource or the answers a teacher needs. (MN)

Reports on an experiment carried out with Swiss high school students who had had four years of French. The students were allowed to design their class work individually. On the basis of a questionnaire, which is provided here, the experiment was judged very successful. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)