The Multiple Alternative Program (MAP) is a competency based, individualized program that focuses on the in-service education of elementary school teachers. Developed in cooperation with the school systems of Norwalk and Bridgeport, Connecticut, MAP addresses itself to the achievement of those teaching competencies that have been identified as…

This report is an evaluation of the Committee of Low-Achievers in Mathematics-Denver Area (COLAMDA) Project, a mathematics program involving diagnosis, prescription, and implementation for use with low achievers in grades seven thru twelve. It contains an assessment of 1970-71 project year by a resource technician. An on-site evaluation report…

Individualized instructional programs arise from varied values, concepts and competencies and hence differ in terminology, goals, strategies and results, making an intelligible view of the field difficult. This manual provides educators with a tool which makes it possible for them to compare different individualized instructional programs by…

This study investigated the relationship between teachers' judgments of students' instructional needs, the mode of instruction received by the student, and his academic achievement. The teachers were asked to judge 102 eighth-grade pupils on a self-reliance/dependence scale which had been developed for this study; the students had been in an…

This paper defines individualized education as any procedures which are used to make sure that an individual student receives instruction specifically appropriate for him. General programs and day-to-day lessons are to be tailor-made to suit a student's learning needs and his characteristics as a learner. Group teaching, self-direction and mastery…

The summary report compared the effectiveness of self-instructional guided inquiry materials with self-instructional expository materials on student's performance as measured by tests of cognitive learning, retention, immediate and delayed transfer. The study was conducted in 4 high schools in Georgia. Treatment preparation for the experiment…

This paper is an account of procedures followed when the traditional classroom of a college reading and study skill program was changed to a fully individualized structure. A folder of information to be used by each pupil consisted of personal information graphs for plotting rate and comprehension scores, answer sheets, a reading skill and…

This document presents a study of the organizational, financial, and physical implications of developing a program for "new market" students at the University of Wisconsin. New market students are generally older people who want educational programs and policies relating directly and concretely to their work, leisure, and human…

The Valley View 45-15 Continuous School Year Plan, begun by the Valley View School District 96, Lockport, Illinois, in June 1970, calls for each student to attend school 45 schooldays and then have a 15-schoolday vacation. Thus, only three-fourths of the entire student body is in school at one time, resulting in a 33% increase in classrooms…

The conference proceedings include seven papers dealing with reading problems of emotionally disturbed children. Emotional resistance to reading is discussed by Jules Abrams, a psychiatrist. The purposes of testing and the problem of labeling are touched upon by Clifford Kolson. Some practical suggestions of classroom techniques for combining a…

This curriculum guide is designed for use by the teacher in basic adult education. The mathematical content includes concepts from numerical operations, elementary algebra and geometry, weights and measures, and graphing. It is designed specifically for individually prescribed instruction. Each unit of material includes a placement examination,…

Individualized instruction presents problems in measurement which challenge the conventional measurement paradigms. Measurement techniques must take into consideration the problems of item variance characteristics of computer-assisted instruction (CAI), idiosyncratic learning sequences, and lack of a model for effectiveness assessment. The…

This publication was prepared by the Intermediate Science Curriculum Study (ISCS) for orienting inservice teachers for using individualized activity-centered science programs in their classrooms. The publication is designed to help teachers in training themselves to ask open-ended questions. Various questioning techniques are described along with…

The effects of an individualized instruction workshop and its related follow-up program on the attitudes and behavior of selected elementary teachers and their students were discussed in this report. Participants were teachers in a four-day workshop on individualizing instruction. The workshop included training in classroom procedures, managing…

This paper presented an individualized, analytical and performance based secondary teacher education system. Each of the four phases was described according to a set of objectives, a contracted sequence of activities, and a discussion of the underlying rationale. Phase I, Observation, stressed the interaction of student teachers with their…