In addition to rating the independent behavior of gifted children in the individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) program, this study also attempts to measure the attitude of children, parents, and teachers toward the IPI program. The report discusses the rationale behind IPI, the school population in the study and control schools, and the…

The instructional implications of Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) were analyzed to determine what effect this method of organizing classroom teaching procedures had upon the arithmetic achievement of 104 IPI students, in comparison with a control group of 108 students. In addition, the study also sought to analyze the affective factors…

Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) depends upon a structured curriculum made up of sequences of behavioral objectives which the student must master in moving from one level of ability to some subsequent higher level. The curriculum designer has the responsibility of specifying, with varying degrees of exactness, how the typical pupil would…

A pilot program, established at Griffin Creek School (Medford, Oregon) from September 1970 to June 1971, consisted of five Laubach-trained volunteer reading tutors, an experimental group of five fifth- and sixth-grade boys, and a control group of eighteen boys and girls in a regular classroom. The experimental boys, reading at a second- or…

The discussion in this paper resulted from a questionnaire administered to students at a graduate seminar on Competency Based Teacher Education held at the University of Houston in 1973. The following topics are discussed: (a) the role of CBTE in society; (b) the nature of competencies; (c) individualizing and personalizing to meet student needs;…

Project PLAN was chosen as a computer managed individualized instruction program for the St. Louis public schools and is evaluated in this final report. The study was conducted during the 1972-73 school year in both control and PLAN classrooms for grades 1-7. The Metropolitan Achievement Test was used in grades 1-3 and the Iowa Test of Basic…

Biology 101 was offered for the second time in the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) format during the spring 1973 semester at North Country Community College. Course policy and procedure for the second semester were identical to fall 1972 except for policy changes outlined in Appendix C of that paper. Sixty students enrolled in the 1973…

This study compares the cost-effectiveness of an individualized basic mathematics program with a traditional program at the junior high school level. Eighth-grade basic mathematics students (N=118) were identified in two schools. The racial and ethnic makeup, socioeconomic level of residents and school size differed between schools. Teachers were…

The purpose of this ten-month project was to determine the value of providing prevocational training to sixteen autistic and/or neurologically impaired children at Benhaven School, New Haven, Connecticut, a school for moderate and severely handicapped preadolescent and adolescent students. Objectives were to evaluate each child's potential for…

This paper examines the method of instruction referred to as the "Keller" method, which is characterized by self-pacing, use of proctors, unit perfection criterion, immediate feedbak, and frequent testing over relatively small units. Incorporating several design features not found in previous studies on this method, it was found that all…

As the proceedings of a national seminar on individualized adult science education, a total of 13 articles is compiled in this volume concerning the theory and techniques of curriculum development and the individualization process in upgrading Canadian science courses. The topics include: The Characteristics and Formulation of Behavioral…

A summer project designed to teach reading readiness skills to disadvantaged preschoolers is described. Thirty five five-year-olds attended the program three hours a day, five days a week, for six weeks. The Vanguard Instructional Model used involved contingency management, individualized instructional materials and the extensive use of student…

Recent studies have demonstrated that computer based training programs which incorporate adaptive branching are superior to fixed sequence programs that require each student to see and respond to every training frame. A study was therefore devised to investigate two different ways to control such branching (student controlled or program…

A variety of pressures from students, alumni, legislators, and administrators has led to increasing concern about the quality of college instruction. In education and psychology, innovation frequently involves either the development of more precise behavioral approaches or more humanistics approaches; yet innovation often occurs without systematic…

A psychodynamic view posits that persistence of behavior change requires modification of a more or less permanent, spontaneous behavior potential which is partially outside the person's awareness and control. A review of the research and theoretical literature between 1960 and 1972 about video playback and other kinds of self-confrontation in…