This document details aspects of the Waukegan Behavior Analysis Follow Through Program, designed for individualized instruction using Heath Elementary Mathematics textbooks. The guide contains five major sections. The first details the structure of the Heath series. Section two covers the process of student placement in the program. The third…

Focusing on written reports of student progress, this paper seeks to help principals and instructional improvement committees in individually guided education schools analyze their reporting systems. The report clarifies the reasons for and the philosophical bases of reporting student progress, discusses the impact of such reporting on…

In fall 1980, a self-paced, individualized, mastery learning approach was adopted at Hibbing Community College for four chemistry courses in order to increase student performance and success and to provide scheduling flexibility for adult students with outside commitments. While both the traditional approach used prior to fall 1980 and the new…

A detailed description is provided of the variable, intraorganizational structure (IOS), which is part of the analysis in phase I of the Evaluation of Practices in Individualized Schooling. The variable is defined; the questionnaires on which the variable is based are listed; the procedures used to scale the variable are explained; the…

This teacher's manual is designed to complement the student manual Guidelines for Keeping Cornell Farm Account Book. The first part of the teacher manual contains lists of concepts that should be taught within each of the fifteen units of instruction. The remainder of the teacher's manual provides the fifteen units of instruction included in the…

The Bilingual Individualized Instructional Management System operated in one Detroit (Michigan) public school. Materials and assistance were also offered to one parochial school. The approach employed a comprehensive and individualized learning system to provide concentrated instruciton to 150 children in grades Kindergarten through five who were…

The factors necessary for implementing and maintaining an individualized adult reading lab are outlined briefly in this paper. Teaching approaches that make the lab suitable for remedial readers, as well as how the individualized approach can help the student beyond the basics of reading are discussed under the heading of components. Suggestions…

A combined lecture-problem workbook course in math and graphics for students entering the engineering program at Triton Community College was designed to allow them to progress at their own rate without a need for faculty lecture. The workbook places equal emphasis on descriptive geometry and graphics with the major areas covered broken into…

A brief summary of the progress and status of the Individualized Instruction for Data Access (IIDA) project is followed by a report dealing with two studies in the environment for which the system was intended. These field experiments were conducted with research engineers and chemists at two different Exxon Research and Engineering Company sites.…

Contracts and prescriptions can provide an effective individualized method for teaching students how to learn. A contract may be formulated by any interested party and is an agreement to achieve stated goals by a described method. Prescriptions are teacher-initiated as a result of a specific diagnosis of a student's needs. In an individualized…

This manual provides program objectives for instructors teaching graphic arts courses in junior and senior high Department of Defense Dependents Schools. The manual contains the program's general objective (students will demonstrate an understanding of the basic concepts and principles of graphic communications), and 15 program objectives. Each…

This study used field study methodology to identify and describe decision-making processes and leadership behavior at the school-wide level in secondary schools that individualize their educational programs. Indepth interviews, observations of groups and individuals, and analysis of documents were used to obtain the basic data. Two senior high…

This paper reports a study which investigated student characteristics for predicting success in an independent, open laboratory. Data were gathered from introductory biology students (N=98) enrolled in a public, two-year college near Atlanta, Georgia. Stepwise multiple regression analysis was used to determine the effects of age, sex, laboratory…

This document is a workbook for drafting students learning the basics of reading and interpreting electronic drawings and diagrams. The workbook contains eight units covering the following material: basic symbols; circuit symbols; electron tube symbols; winding symbols; semiconductor symbols; miscellaneous symbols; schematic diagrams; and…

Computer assisted instruction (CAI), an instructional system with direct interaction between the student and the computer, can be a valuable aid for presenting new concepts, for reinforcing of selective skills, and for individualizing instruction. The advantages CAI provides include self-paced learning, more efficient allocation of classroom time,…