The Lyndon Baines Johnson High School in Austin, Texas, was designed to provide a responsive, individualized instructional climate at the high school level, partly because of tensions accompanying desegregation, high drop-out rates, and low achievement rates in basic skills. Evaluation of this program is intended to determine whether the…

A review of some of the class-size research and a discussion of the views of administrators and teachers. (MLF)

Steps are given for teachers to individualize their classes using pre-prepared instructional materials. (HB)

The final report describes activities of the 3 year Integrated Model Preschool Program, which provided special educational services to up to 20 preschool handicapped children per year in an integrated public school setting in Monroe County, Indiana. First year activities focused on developing a prototype preschool demonstration program which could…

This booklet is the third in a series of eight reporting on the tenth-cycle Teacher Corps program in the Lincoln, Nebraska public school system, and details the role contracts and contracting play in the learning process. Key concepts in contracting are enumerated and specific processes are discussed as they relate to instructional contracts,…

The author discusses the benefits of using individualized instructional methods in physical education and describes the various components of the method. General rationale for the implementation of individualized instruction is that subject matter taught is frequently dependent upon the processes provided for learning--if learning does not take…

The effect of individualized instruction programs on academic achievement and selected school related attitudes of elementary school children was studied. It was hypothesized that students in individualized programs would have significantly higher achievement scores, more positive attitudes toward school and self, greater self-direction, and…

Reported is a study in the Oakleaf Elementary School to test the hypothesis that variability of achievement within a particular grade approximates the number of years the pupils have been in school (e.g., in the third grade, a spread of three years is expected). Data were collected and analyzed regarding range of achievement prior to instruction…

The second volume of a two-volume final report includes 13 appendices and a bibliography. The appendices relate to readability test results, program growth, testing schedules, conferences, information publications, the ISCS Center Leader Concept, agenda for meetings, demonstration schools, materials development contributors, sample conference…