Interdisciplinary integration of health professions education (e.g. pharmacy, medicine, dentistry, nursing, and podiatry) is examined in light of the pros (societal usefulness and cost effectiveness) and cons (justifiable professional boundaries and other concerns). Characteristics of an integrated cluster of individualized, cross-disciplinary…

Instruction can be fitted to the needs of individual students without great cost.

Describes how a Physical Science Study Committee(PSSC) course was adapted to the individualized format known as the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) and introduced to universities and secondary schools. (LS)

The research described in this report elaborates the dimensions and effects on elementary-aged children of cooperative, competitive, and individualized learning environments, with specific focus on peer relationships and personal satisfactions and dissatisfactions. Children's behavior was observed within the learning environments and again…

Describes the nine salient features of an individualized reading program: introduction and motivation, new words or ideas, comprehension guide questions, oral reading, comprehension skills, vocabulary development, word analysis skills, enrichment, and student teacher conferences. (RL)

Florida's individualized competency-based vocational education program stresses variety in learning experiences to accommodate individual student differences in learning. The author describes sequence of instruction and techniques to help the teacher facilitate learning. (MF)

A study of three hearing, moderately handicapped children (seven and eight years old) was undertaken in order to examine the acquisition, generalization, and maintenance of sign language production with this population. (PHR)

Describes some of the instructional methods tried, the problems encountered, and the philosophies involved concerning individualized instruction in a community college. The two semester introductory biology course emphasizes the open laboratroy concept, with individualized instructional modules prepared for laboratory experiments. (HM)

Describes a chemistry course designed for the general student at Pampa Senior High School, Pampa, Texas. It presents the fundamental concepts in chemistry in a nonmathematical context; contains many options in the form of minicourses; and permits the student to pace himself. (HM)

Discusses the baccalaureate program for occupational students at the School of Technical Careers at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, designed to ease transition and minimize articulation problems by automatically accepting the associate degree as the major concentration for the individualized program. (AC)

Examines the learning laboratory at Illinois Central College. Proposes that the learning center of the future must assume a new administrative position as an independent unit, develop new services for the faculty which will, in turn, benefit the student, as well as engage in research relevant to instruction. (TP)

Studies of classes in which teachers used a science curriculum developed by the Australian Science Education Project are reported. (GW)

Describes one of California's compensatory education efforts, the diagnostic/prescriptive/individualized mathematics program at Franklin Junior High School in Long Beach, where the majority of the students are transient, minority background, and from welfare families. Value of the program is shown by the fact that Franklin students who had been…

The efforts of three science teachers in individualizing an existing eighth grade physical science program are analyzed. The individualized program utilizes team teaching, student choice in selecting contracts, and extension of the standard eighth grade physical science curriculum. (MN)

This article describes the teaching innovations used by a fifth-grade teacher of gifted students. (JD)