Describes an automated microcomputer system that can present precise stimuli and record accurate responses and discusses its use in studying and training retarded and psychotic children. It is noted that training procedures that require the children to utilize visual, auditory, and bimodal stimuli can be automated with the system. (MBR)

Teachers, students, and parents at Tecumseh Harrison Elementary School (Vincennes, Indiana) are pulling together to make the school the best that it can be. Innovative approaches include learning centers (on publishing, for example), individualized instruction, and videotaped lessons. (PP)

Describes a course that supplements the traditional lecture approach with some aspects of self-paced personalized instruction in the form of a complete video and audiocassette collection of course materials designed for independent study, remedial work, review, or enrichment according to the needs or desires of the student. (GS)

Outlined is an approach to vocational education designed to offer high school students exploratory contacts and job competencies for a wide range of occupations. (GW)

Describes the Foundations Program at Mohegan Community College, an interdisciplinary program providing individualized instruction in English, reading, and mathematics. It is team taught and designed to be developmental and corrective as well as remedial. (DC)

The availability of adequate curriculum materials that help professional staffs plan and implement instructional programs suitable for each student makes the difference in whether or not IGE works. (MM)

The author's definition for individuals with special needs in career-oriented educational programs recognizes the effects of disability, disadvantage and/or dysfunctional school placement and the need for individually prescribed, unique, and more powerful teaching techniques; individualized supplemental or supportive services; and additional…

Describes the logistics and media used to implement the Independent Study Sessions for learning fundamental nursing skills at the University of Delaware and comments upon self-pacing and its relationship to student responsibility. (TA)

Teachers' attitudes toward language teaching trends were surveyed. Prospective teachers about to enter the profession believed that language programs should be self-paced and there should be a cooperative learning climate in classrooms. Experienced teachers were more moderate but used techniques for self-pacing and real communication often in…

A card catalog system for ordering required and supplementary reading for foreign language courses is described as an important aid in individualized instruction. (CHK)

Describes individualized television instruction involving active student participation, where experiments on air breathing in fish and shoot growth were videotaped. Students collected data directly from the television screen. Student accuracy was found to be excellent; reactions to the medium were found to be apathetic. Reasons for apathy are…

The authors discuss the development of a diagnostic-prescriptive teaching and learning program in the Youngstown public school system; give background material; describe organizational form and implementation; and conclude with a series of "points to ponder" for educators contemplating a similar venture. (MB)

An investigation was undertaken to examine relationships between student learning styles and traditional environments or individualized settings in second language learning. Students with high conceptual-level scores preferred an individualized environment, while those with low conceptual-level scores needed a traditional environment. (CHK)

Discusses the competency-based writing program developed at Harper College. Each student proceeds at his/her own pace utilizing slide-tape shows, rhetoric texts, and supplementary materials to learn composition skills. (DC)

The emphasis of higher education has shifted from equal opportunity in the 1960's to faculty development and student learning in the 1970's. The result has been an "instructional revolution." Colleges are relying to an ever-increasing extent upon individualized instruction, and this is changing the roles of college teachers. The implications of…