The final report describes activities of the 3 year Integrated Model Preschool Program, which provided special educational services to up to 20 preschool handicapped children per year in an integrated public school setting in Monroe County, Indiana. First year activities focused on developing a prototype preschool demonstration program which could…

This booklet is the third in a series of eight reporting on the tenth-cycle Teacher Corps program in the Lincoln, Nebraska public school system, and details the role contracts and contracting play in the learning process. Key concepts in contracting are enumerated and specific processes are discussed as they relate to instructional contracts,…

The author discusses the benefits of using individualized instructional methods in physical education and describes the various components of the method. General rationale for the implementation of individualized instruction is that subject matter taught is frequently dependent upon the processes provided for learning--if learning does not take…

The effect of individualized instruction programs on academic achievement and selected school related attitudes of elementary school children was studied. It was hypothesized that students in individualized programs would have significantly higher achievement scores, more positive attitudes toward school and self, greater self-direction, and…

Reported is a study in the Oakleaf Elementary School to test the hypothesis that variability of achievement within a particular grade approximates the number of years the pupils have been in school (e.g., in the third grade, a spread of three years is expected). Data were collected and analyzed regarding range of achievement prior to instruction…

The second volume of a two-volume final report includes 13 appendices and a bibliography. The appendices relate to readability test results, program growth, testing schedules, conferences, information publications, the ISCS Center Leader Concept, agenda for meetings, demonstration schools, materials development contributors, sample conference…

A cybernetic subcomponent is proposed which can gather the necessary information and make the operating decisions to allow one system of instruction (M.D. Merrill's) to respond to and provide for differential needs within the individual learner. (Merrill's system divides the universe of instructional objectives into a taxonomy of seven categories,…

This is an informal appraisal of differences between lecture method and individual instruction. In an experiment, known underachievers were combined at random with regular enrollees. The instruction method (contingency contracting) emphasized increased student motivation by making the student-teacher relationship cooperative instead of…

A project designed to determine the relevance of existing standardized achievement tests to the goals of individualized instruction is among the ongoing research activities of Project PLAN, a computer-supported individualized education program. Standardized achievement tests (including the Metropolitan Readiness Test, the Scholastic Aptitude…

This report describes an experimental study conducted in two New York state high schools for the purpose of determining the feasibility of using electronic calculators to improve mathematics instruction. The study was also concerned with determining whether or not curriculum-related materials can be developed to make the electronic calculator a…

An annotated bibliography is the third concluding portion of this three-part progress report on IPI. Part I documents progress and findings up to September 1969 with the aid of a flow chart of the system, a table of behavioral objectives for the mathematics continuum 1969-70, a brief historical table (1954-66) of progress from research to IPI…

'Teaching in IPI' is an introductory program designed to equip the teacher with the basic skills required to plan and conduct IPI in the classroom. It comprises five volumes, of which this--divided into two sections: An Overview of Individualized Instruction and IPI, and Behavioral Objectives and the IPI Mathematics Continuum--is the first.…

With information derived from IPI Placement Tests, Unit Pretests, Curriculum Embedded Tests (CET's) and Unit Posttests; student performance on prescribed IPI tests and skill sheets, and observation of students' behavior, the teacher should, after planning sessions, be able to initiate the building of a basis for instructional decision making in…