An experimental first year course in accounting was offered which utilized the concept of individualized instruction. The students were mostly sophomores at the University of Massachusetts. Two teaching assistants and the instructor provided the 60 member sample population with two types of assignment sheets, one relating to the textbook, one…

The Experimental Manpower Laboratory for Corrections has conducted continuous experimental studies in offender rehabilitation since the lab was created in 1968. The opportunity to incorporate the findings and products from previous studies by developing a behavioral management model was provided in March 1973, when the lab began its Mount Meigs…

The manual is a guide for trainers who will be leading classes (10-12 hours) in techniques of teaching for clinical instructors in the allied health professions. An adaptation of the Training Within Industry "Job Instructor Training" manual, it is designed to assist instructors to teach in an organized, efficient manner. Preliminary class…

A Media Specialist Institute was held to train teachers who would be using the mathematics programs devised by the Commonwealth Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI) Consortium. Teachers from Lincoln High School in Philadelphia and Schenley High School in Pittsburgh were given college credit for attending the three-week program. The first week…

A descriptive summary of research at the University of Texas into the relationship between anxiety and performance is presented. Relevant research on the concepts of worry, emotionality, and state anxiety is reviewed. An instructional context involving a computer-managed course in educational psychology is described, along with the methodology…

The two-year goal of the Diagnostic-Prescriptive-Individualized Primary Reading Program (DPI) is to cut in half the deficit between the national norms and actual achievement scores of the pupils as measured by the California Achievement Tests at the first and second grade levels and the California Test of Basic Skills at the third grade level. As…

To demonstrate that individualized prescriptive instruction would improve facility in oral language a preprimary class for children three to five years of age was established in Bakersfield, California; and a primary class for children six through eight years of age was established in nearby Shafter. All pupils were of normal intelligence, had no…

The focus of this project was to individualize mathematics instruction for fifth- and sixth-grade students. Tapes and student study sheets were prepared for different ability levels. These materials allowed teachers to place students in a self-instruction package commensurate with the students' ability and allowed students to proceed at their own…

This publication is the second in a series intended to disseminate program ideas tried successfully at one Job Corps Center and of likely interest to other centers. Contained in this issue are materials of value in tutoring math and reading to corps-members whose first language is Spanish. (Author/SK)

In the absence of outside funding, the University of Minnesota, with the cooperation of public and private school educators and lay citizens of the area, began to develop on its own individualized, competency-based programs that would serve both preservice and in-service teachers. These efforts resulted in the development of the Secondary Teacher…

New patterns of organization are required to make openspace work in order to achieve the individual learning goals of students working at their own level, seeking information independently, and interacting freely with other students when required. A comparison of the traditional classroom with what is happening in the more "open" openrooms reveals…

This guide is intended for teachers of modern languages planning to individualize their instruction. Materials include suggestions for classroom management, and the role of the teacher and the responsibility of the student for the success of his learning program are defined. A format for creating learning activity packets will assist the teacher…

The need at the community college level for the development of new styles or modes of education that are consistent with the uniqueness of the individual student and will help him realize his human potential is discussed. Such styles or modes are based upon an educational theory called confluent education. The Semester for Self-Directed Study is a…

The school curriculum should be reappraised, and new guidelines developed, establishing different levels of achievement for pupils of different abilities. The increase in the understanding of the psychology of learning is one of the great accomplishments of the last one hundred years. Some years ago it was generally believed that much of what…

A reprint of the shorthand syllabus and teaching handbook developed during 1961-2 by a committee of experienced teachers of shorthand working with the staff of the New York Bureau of Business and Distributive Education, the syllabus is provided to assist shorthand teachers who are currently preparing students in New York State secondary schools to…