This report describes a practicum designed to plan and implement a training model that is intended to change inservice education and, subsequently, to prepare teachers to individualize instruction. The motivation necessary for planned change, an innovative problem solving design, the implementation of that design, and the results of the…

The purpose of the study was to determine the effectiveness of an individualized earth science course designed as a general education course for nonscience majors at the University of Dubuque. The population of students consisted of all freshman and sophomore nonscience majors who entered the university in 1969 and 1970 as full-time students. The…

Because of the unique program of Empire State College, the problem of providing compensatory courses about women and developing a strategy for eventually having them incorporated into the curriculum of a discipline has been avoided. The focus at this college has been taken from the teacher and placed on the student, giving the student the primary…

This paper presents a brief overview of current research on learner-centered curricular reform and of some of the issues attendant to its character and quality. Seven groupings of learner-centered reform are discussed in relation to current research and findings: performance and competency-based programs, personalized instruction, cooperative…

Developed by the Southwest Iowa Learning Resources Center, Media Now is a course for secondary students in media studies. Curriculum concentration is on television, film, radio, and recorded sound. Individualization of instruction, behavioral science, and mediated learning packages are employed with each module interrelated through printed…

This anthology of articles originally published between 1964 and 1969 has two sections: one describing methods of individualizing instruction in science and mathematics with some examples of successful practices, and the second containing seven papers, five dealing with the use of computers to individualize instruction, one with the impact of…

In the 1940's and 1950's, the goal of the schools was equal opportunity for all. Now the goal is to maximize the potential of each child through individualized instruction. As a result, standardized tests and measures lacking in prescriptive information on students are falling into disfavor. The three principal past uses of evaluation--placement,…

The major purpose of the experience described in this report was to determine what functional problems tended to develop under an individualized continual progress approach when large numbers of students were enrolled and where multiple instructional staff loads were maximized. This report describes: (1) the nature of the instruction, the basic…

The Individualized Secondary Teacher Education Program (I-STEP) is a preservice education program with little formal course work. Students schedule lectures or discussions by request, and behavioral objectives have been written to embrace all of the teaching concepts and skills required for initial certification. These objectives have been…

Described is the Individually Prescribed Instruction program in science for kindergarten through ninth grade. Five goals of the program are discussed: student self-direction, student co-evaluation, positive attitudes, skills in inquiry, and scientific literacy. The organization of the program by developmental levels and organizing themes for…

An experimental study was conducted to determine whether the kind of homework a teacher gave made a difference in academic achievement in elementary school children and whether homework such as collecting, observing, listening, and constructing models improved reading ability. Subjects were nearly 700 students in grades 4 through 6 in two schools…

The main objective of the Primary Education Project (PEP) is to develop an individualized early learning program to serve children from age three through the primary grades. The 1968-1969 school year represented the first year during which a formal PEP program was implemented. This report describes the results of this first year. The PEP early…

The first volume of a two-volume final report provides a thorough description of the rationale, development, content, and materials in the ISCS project. Chapter one examines the rationale for the project and the developmental procedures used, including underlying assumptions about junior high schools, students and teachers, and reviews the general…

Presented in introductory sections of this document is a discussion of the implications of recent advances in knowledge and technology and of the population explosion: future society will have an increased emphasis on continuous learning as man's labor is replaced by machines and as the need for peaceful interaction grows. A teacher-scholar for…

To provide material for decision or policy-makers with questions concerning policy, applications, and/or operations in the field of individualized instruction, 31 published books, journals and ERIC documents are listed and annotated. 32 Elementary Secondary Education Act Title III innovative projects described in PACE abstracts are listed by ES…