Sweden's experience in mathematics instruction suggests that it is not possible to create and implement a program that serves both students preparing for advanced, specialized study, and the majority. (MM)

Presents four guidelines for improving individualized instruction, based on the author's experience with the "mastery learning" approach to instruction. (JG)

Describes a technique for individualizing instruction in a public relations course that enrolls an average of 50 students each semester. (KS)

Incorporating personality styles into technical instruction can enhance student learning. Four personality styles based on Jung--intuitor, feeler, thinker, and doer--have implications for individualizing technical instruction. (JOW)

Effective instruction must reflect a functional understanding of the present level of learning, based on the learner's situation and maturity. The Situational Instruction Model is designed to assist in the development of personalized learning. (JOW)

Describes how a typical high school in Huntington Beach, California, curbed disruptive student behavior by personalizing the school experience for "problem" students. Through mostly volunteer efforts, an adopt-a-kid program was initiated that matched kids' learning styles to adults' personality styles and resulted in fewer suspensions…

Many practitioners and policy makers view personalized school environments as a means to promote student commitment to school and engagement in learning. Personalization also rewards teachers and encourages their commitment and accountability. A personalized environment is the product of deliberate, strategic choices about organizational…

The Mathematics Recovery program provides intensive individualized teaching of students with low math achievement. It is based on principles of early math learning, incorporating promotion of independent thought and use of the zone of proximal development. (SK)

A study assessed entering nursing students' mathematics competencies and identified those who needed additional help. Clinical faculty then customized the teaching-learning experience for these at-risk students. (JOW)

Discusses traditional career counseling methods which are based on the assumption that matching clients' interests, values, abilities, and aptitudes to a suitable occupation will result in opportunities for self-actualization and personal expression. Contends that vocational psychology has focused almost exclusively on individuals to the neglect…

Discusses a random sample of house officers who took part in a semistructured interview about their learning experiences in a clinical undergraduate course. Argues that learning experiences should be dependable and followed by prompt, supportive, and adequately detailed feedback. (Author/CCM)

Discusses 14 challenges to the use of individualized instruction in corrections. Emphasizes a systems approach, motivational tools, programmed instructional materials, and approaches such as Direct Instruction and Precision Teaching. (SK)

We conducted a review of the literature to investigate interventions designed to increase students' involvement in their individualized education program (IEP) process. Sixteen studies were identified and analyzed in terms of six variables: purpose, participants/setting, design, dependent variables, independent variable, and results. Our findings…

Once in a while, or perhaps once too often these days, a bright idea finds its way into the language of education. It is not so much a new theory of learning based on a critical analysis of the very best of what is known about an aspect of pedagogy, but a seemingly new idea, rooted in politics rather than pedagogy, and most commonly articulated in…