Defines the concept of competency-based adult education (CBAE) and maintains that it is not a curriculum, but an adult education process emphasizing individualized instruction, learner goals, functional literacy, and other life skills. Discusses the importance of program evaluation, adult teaching/learning principles, and the teacher's role in…

Teacher concerns about individualized physical education were measured by the Stages of Concern questionnaire. Data were collected before and after a field-based inservice training program involving physical education teachers. Results of the study indicate that, while change is a difficult process, it can be facilitated by focusing on individual…

The majority of handicapped students can and should be integrated into the regular physical education program. Children who exhibit severe motor impairment should be placed in specialized programs. Segregated programs should develop sufficient levels of skill so that the child can be integrated into the regular program. (JN)

Selective Testing provides students with equivalent test options that control the sequence and quantification of individual items. Essay and objective test construction is modified to allow the student to combine units and create an individualized test. An example of a test on the American Revolution is presented. (FG)

The author discusses various ways that children differ biologically and relates these to their needs during the learning process. Tutoring, individual inquiry, and mastery learning are included in the discussion. (SA)

Retarded readers were bused to a special "reading" school for small group individualized instruction. Matched controls remained at their home schools using the regular reading program. When compared on reading gains, reading attitudes, and self-concept, experimental students were superior only on comprehension for two of the three study years.…

Describes Tolstoy's experimental school program as a forerunner of modern, open-education programs. In a radical departure from conventional, nineteenth century Russian educational practice, Tolstoy stressed individualized, independent learning with meaningful instructional materials. In his non-coercive classroom, self-discipline was founded on…

Specific books which can be used as a supplement to traditional mathematics materials are reviewed. Topic categories are: Position, Geometric Concepts, Measurement, Size, Time, Money, Numeral Names and Counting, Ordinal Numbers, Concepts of Quantity, and Arithmetic Concepts. (MP)

Reviews research on teacher attitudes towards sexual differences as they affect their response to student behavior and potential. Since research findings refute many sexual stereotypes, the author recommends individualized instruction to encourage the highest development of individual capacities. A checklist for evaluating teaching sex fairness is…

Described is the development of the Self-Schedule System, which aims at optimizing instructional time by teaching students to manage their own time and tasks. Program components for training students and for providing structural and ecological supports for flexible usage of school resources are outlined and research findings discussed. (SJL)

A controlled trial of teaching clinical biochemistry by the Keller Plan at the University of Otago Medical School is described. The Keller Plan group performed significantly better than the control group on the final examination. (MLW)

A computer-assisted instruction (CAI) unit was designed to teach renal diet therapy. Utilizing this unit, differences in performance and attitudes between traditionally taught and CAI taught students (N=34), and differences in achievement between students in two nutrition fields were assessed. (DS)

Identifies five factors that appear to have contributed to the survival of several firmly established programs in the alternative school movement. (Author/WD)

If they are open to the experience, cooperating teachers can learn a great deal about different teaching methods from their student teachers and from the college supervisor working in their school. (SJL)

A number of individualized approaches to student learning are reviewed: Keller plan, refined linear model, variable route model, modular learning model, and independent study. Each successive approach offers students an increasingly wider degree of choice to determine goals and the means of achieving them. (Author/MLW)