Discusses teaching of two project experiments to nonscience students who were asked to measure the acceleration of a system any way they could and investigate any phenomena that they thought might follow a Poisson distribution. Indicates that physics learning performed outside the physics building is the experiment highlight. (CC)

Discusses the philosophy and operation of a self-instructional laboratory at MIT which utilizes visual materials reinforced by audio tapes and is designed to give the student a taste of how to collect, display, and interpret data. Indicates that the approach results in the flexibility needed to serve self-paced courses. (CC)

The Independent Study Program (ISP) at Ohio State University College of Medicine involves students in a self-paced, individual learning experience that intersperses primary learning from books, journal articles, films, slides, and tapes with periodic tutorial self-evaluation at computer terminals. (Author)

A fourth grade teacher tells of her experience with a weekly class event called "free-time learning". (GB)

A discussion of experiments with four-year-old children posed with the paired-associate task of learning where nine different animals lived, using apparatus designed for self-instruction through picture matching. (Author)

Deals with some of the general objectives which the 1973 decree recommends. (DD)

A classification of independent study behaviors''; six areas are listed and objectives in each are given. (Author/SP)

A paper read in February 1972 at the National Conference on Graduate Studies in English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. (RB)

Study compares the effect of three teaching methods on recall of facts, understanding of content, and application of principles. (Author)

Describes a continuing program incorporating ecological instruction and independent field studies, based upon a local lake in place of usual advanced biology program. (AL)

Report of a study on distance teaching,'' where teaching and learning occur in separate places; author feels the trend will be towards teaching students how to learn'' rather than specific subject matter. (SP)

Discusses the pros and cons of the open area school and examines independent study as a complement to group instruction as exemplified in the open area school. (Author/MM)