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…

Algebra I and General Mathematics courses directed at a ninth grade population are being designed to include a tutorial program under computer control and a variety of supplemental learning experiences. Student performance data will not only control the flow of the program, but also will enable the classroom teacher to assign appropriate…

An individualized, computer-assisted instruction (CAI) program of courses in Algebra and General Mathematics was developed for ninth graders. The courses are "on-line", with students receiving instruction and their performances being recorded to direct the flow of instruction and to assign appropriate off-line instructional materials.…

An individualized, computer-assisted instruction (CAI) program of courses in algebra and general mathematics was developed for ninth graders. The courses are on-line; the students receive instruction and their performances are recorded to direct the flow of instruction and to assign appropriate off-line instructional materials. Flowcharts have…

Algebra I and General Mathematics courses using tutorial instructional programs under computer control supplemented by "off-line" materials (included in the computer controlled testing) have been developed for a ninth grade student population. The relationships of instructional materials, pretests, posttests, and choice points are…

A study was designed to investigate and evaluate the development of a computer-assisted instruction (CAI) phonics program. The program was administered to 36 students enrolled in an undergraduate reading methods course. Subjects were pretested, and based on pretest performance, they were branched to CAI which included illustrative lessons, student…

The individually-paced instruction program carried out by the engineering faculty at Oklahoma State University is described in this article to illustrate its goals, principles, characteristics, developments, and present status. The instructional model is discussed in connection with behavioral objectives, criteria for performance, and student…

A multimedia course in economic analysis was developed and used in conjunction with the United States Naval Academy. (See ED 043 790 and ED 043 791 for the final reports of the project evaluation and development project.) This report describes the prevalidation trials, the materials validation, and the validation of the operational instructional…

Immaculate Heart College, Los Angeles, California developed a self-initiated and self-directed curriculum in the Teacher Preparation Program. The curriculum was based on a spiral planning model. Emphasis was placed on continuous evaluation, exploration of the learning experience, development of experimental teacher training experiences in the…