Summarizes talks of five speakers at Vanderbilt University's symposium on foreign language teaching: "Exploring a Partnership: Computer-Assisted Instruction in Foreign Languages"; "Individualized Foreign-Language Instruction"; "Language Learning: To What Undergraduate Purpose?"; "The Training of Graduate Students as Teachers--A Proposal";…

The article describes a program in which students from Boston University's Department of Movement, Health, and Leisure, enrolled in the course "Motor Learning Theory and Laboratory," assist in assessing and providing individually tailored programs of motor training for deaf-blind children at the Perkins School for the Blind. (DLS)

Describes a program, involving individualized instruction and classroom management techniques, that has increased the reading skills of one district's students. (IRT)

Discusses the methodology and stages of occupational generic skills studies focusing on four occupational surveys encompassing seventy-seven trade occupations. Also, covers specifications for developing an individualized job training curriculum and cites some available generic skills tools for teachers. (EM)

Tackles the vexed question of mathematics teaching in unstreamed, mixed ability, elementary mathematics classes. (Editor/RK)

Discusses use of the Individualized Instruction Inventory to determine demographic data, practices and attitudes of North Carolina occupational education instructors. Describes a model, detailing tasks and evaluative measures, intended to collect data and assess the effectiveness of individualized instruction approaches. (Author/AC)

As hypothesized, less advanced students benefited most from a high instructional support treatment (personalized system of instruction) used in an introductory calculus course. Furthermore, as level of prior mathematics preparation increased, the achievement differences between the high and low instructional support (lecture) decreased. (Author/CP)

Considers the Nontraditional Learning Program at Moraine Valley Community College which utilizes paraprofessionals in College Level Examination Program (CLEP) Seminars, television and newspaper courses, and independent learning. Points out that despite problems involved with paraprofessional staff, the over-all benefits more than compensate for…

The progress of self-paced and instructor-paced students was examined with measures of achievement, course evaluations, and retention. Though the self-paced group procrastinated, and the instructor-paced group did not, they had similar test scores and were equally satisfied with the course. The number of completed units, grade distributions, and…

One of the most pressing problems in California secondary schools revolves around the scarcity of options for those young people labelled as "troublesome" for a variety of minor but infuriatingly difficult adjustment problems. In the Pomona Unified School District, Fremont Junior High School has developed an alternative program to combat…

A personalized competency-based instructional strategy was designed and evaluated as an alternative to the traditional teacher-directed method. There was no difference in mean gain scores between the two groups for cognitive objectives, but the experimental strategy was superior in teaching psychomotor competencies. Student responses to the PSI…

Describes an introductory chemistry course presented at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in which students meet four times a week in classes of 25 each with a teaching assistant to view lectures via videocassette. (SL)

Describes an electrical engineering program in which assignments have been computerized to individualize out-of-class work. (SL)

Presents the Human Sciences Program (HSP) developed by the Biological Sciences Curriculum (BSCS) staff. The program is described as modular, activity-centered, personalized, interdisciplinary, and flexible. The article also presents the HSP classroom trial schools and the dissemination centers. (HM)

Seeks to provide brief accounts of significant current innovation and research in Australia, and, in some issues, also in Papua New Guinea. Examines the television viewing habits of sixth grade children, a learning environment for open or individualized classrooms, and describes an innovative art program. (Author/RK)