The major differences between the school of 1980 and that of today will be emphasis on individualized learning. Another trend will be the changing role of the teacher from a lecturer and verbal source of facts to a manager of the learning process and source of counseling and motivational support for students. Physical facilities will be…

The critical need for greater numbers of trained technicians provided the general impetus for developing this approach to teaching the math skills which are needed for basic science and technology. This instructional system, which has been developed over a 4-year period, focuses on the average and below average students who enroll in industrial…

In order to compare the behavior of teachers at different grade levels within Project PLAN, a program of individualized instruction, eight observers were trained in the use of a specially developed teacher observation system (PLAN-TOS) which includes 17 categories of behavior, and observations were made of all 66 Project PLAN teachers in the 14…

A series of eight summary statements, expressed as "from-to" movements for the improvement of curriculum design, serves as an outline for a discussion of efforts to relate curriculums more meaningfully to the education of disadvantaged youth: (1) From a curriculum that is rigidly scheduled and uniform to one that is flexible and geared to the…

Individualized instruction is the central theme of a model for the preparation of elementary school teachers, and this theme is developed through the inclusion of unique features such as emphasis on program flexibility, student self-development, and learner efficiency. These unique features are incorporated into an academically and clinically…

This study was conducted to determine the effects of individualized reading as a literature teaching method in the secondary school. Seniors in two high schools were divided evenly into three groups, each group having 65 students representing four levels of ability to interpret literary materials. The experimental group was assigned to two…

This bibliography, compiled from American and Canadian periodical and book indexes, covers a period of approximately five years. Entries deal with the variety of computer applications in instruction; administrative uses and library automation are not included. The 204 entries are separated into six categories: (1) Bibliography--8 entries; (2)…

The PLAN Student Observation Scale (PLAN-SOS) was developed to measure the percentage of time that students spend performing various behaviors judged to be important to the learning process in the system of individualized instruction upon which Project PLAN is based. An earlier document reported the use of this instrument in comparing PLAN…

Individualized instruction is the central theme of a model for the preparation of elementary school teachers, and this theme is developed through the inclusion of unique features such as emphasis on program flexibility, student self-development, and learner efficiency. These unique features are incorporated into an academically and clinically…

Two studies conducted in the field of business education are presented in this report by the Colorado State Department of Education. In one study, individualized instruction procedures and individual work packets were developed for students in both first- and second-year typing. Descriptive statistics presented for the 2 groups over a 3-year…

This document reviews problems, alternatives, and recent developments in the education of prisoners. The authors state as a guiding argument that while inmates are severely handicapped according to traditional academic measures, in terms of the current movement in education towards individualized instruction nowhere is there a more fertile ground…

The Learning Skills Center (LSC) of Whatcom, Washington, Community College is a service, not a place. The college campus is the whole county and the LSC is offered in more than one location in the county. The disadvantages of the scattered-campus LSC include complicated decentralized record-keeping, the necessity of duplicated services and…

Results of a recently conducted evaluation of a pioneer reading program in West Virginia during the 1973-1974 school year are included in this document. Emphasis in this federally funded program was placed on an individualized, diagnostic-prescriptive approach to reading instruction. Contents consist of an introduction; sections discussing the…

The highly successful Project Success Environment, a three-year project in Atlanta, Georgia, was directed toward the problem of academic underachievement in inner-city schools. The main thrust of the program was the construction of a positive learning environment--a restructuring of the classroom that replaces the failure environment with a…

In many objective-based curriculum management systems, students' curricular activities are carefully directed by their own performance through extensive pretesting. When implementing such programs, however, there are often only rough criteria for appropriate leveling of students, necessitating extensive retesting. This paper outlines a model for…