The author discusses three instructional strategies--mini-courses, games and simulations, and learning environments outside the classroom--which are currently being employed in speech communication education. The three strategies embody the well established learning principles that students learn better when they: (1) know what it is they are…

This instruction manual for the Learning Individualized for Canadians (LINC) mathematics course is designed for use in adult basic education or retraining programs focusing on individually prescribed learning. Emphasis is on developing computational and problem-solving skills and on practical applications of mathematics to everyday life skills and…

A set of three teacher-prepared Learning Activity Packages (LAPs) in geometry, the units cover the topics of distance, lines, planes, separation; angles and triangles; and congruences. The units each include a rationale for the material, a list of behavioral objectives, a list of resources including texts (with reading assignments and problem sets…

Instructional television, an innovation in education, is viewed in its practical aspects by this book, which presents the separate thoughts of eight persons who have had extensive experience with some aspect of instructional television. The role of television in education is considered, with separate chapters providing added detail for both…

To evaluate the effectiveness of the Borg-Warner System 80 in seven Washington, D. C., schools, interviews, pupil progress records, questionnaires, and observational data were gathered on 103 students and their teachers. Two Borg-Warner programmed series, "Learning Letter Names" and "Reading Words in Context," were used in…

Three interrelated, principal factors bearing on the concept of "individualized instruction" are critically examined in this study. They include the notions of: (1) "integrity of the discipline," (2) "democratization" of instruction, and (3) academic accountability. Discussion of the growing mythology surrounding individualized instruction reveals…

In order to give the training center just beginning to use programmed instruction (PI) a "head start," a graduated annotated reading list is presented. Having read this literature, the reader should be able to identify behavioral objectives, define programmed instruction and individualized instruction, and understand the teacher or…

The past preoccupation of reading teacher education with how reading should be taught to the exclusion of immersing students in the process of teaching reading has reaped resentment toward neophyte teachers' ignorance of reading materials, approaches, and techniques already established in schools. Changes in that perspective of reading teacher…

To develop a practical method of individualizing basal reading materials and to test possible effects upon pupils' achievement and awareness of the locus control of their learning when this method is employed, a fourth grade class received directive helpful teacher responses to their requests for assistance with workbook exercises. A tally of…

Excerpts from "Teacher Education and Training" (the James' Report), issued in the United Kingdom early in 1972, comprise the bulk of this newsletter. James recommends that "all teachers should be entitled to release with pay for inservice education and training on a scale not less than the equivalent of one term in every seven…

All (172) second grade nonreaders in Title I schools received structured tutoring from intermediate age youngsters 15 minutes per day, four days per week for five months in a program to remediate reading skills. Control Subjects were randomly selected, without regard for reading ability, from the total grade 2 population of three non-Title I…

The author tests the proposition that an educational program containing a minimum amount of failure will help the student to achieve a favorable self-attitude. Based on the belief that early experience of success leads to a healthy self-concept, it is hypothesized that children in an Individually Prescribed Instruction Program (IPI) should have a…

A remedial reading program designed for intermediate-grade students who read from 1 to 7 years below grade level was studied. The program provided individualized instruction within classes homogeneously grouped on the basis of reading level only. Six seventh-grade classes were studied, with three acting as homogeneously grouped experimental…

In planning media systems for individualized study it is valuable to know if printed materials are as effective as projected materials in promoting student recall. An experiment to compare printed and projected materials utilized subjects from graduate school, the tenth, and the twelfth grade. Subjects were tested on images in either printed or…

Described is the EDL "Learning 100" adult-oriented communication skills program used in the Wyandanch community of New York's Suffolk County. Using one full-time reading specialist and two full-time aides, the program divided 100 disadvantaged, minority group junior high school students into 16 sections, each meeting for different…