One of a series of documents produced by a nationwide network of early childhood education specialists, teachers, parents, and Head Start staff, the document contains a language arts skills continuum to be used as a tool for individualizing instruction for students learning basic educational skills. A comprehensive set of learner objectives for…

An individualized learning package provides step-by-step instruction in the fundamentals of the etching process. Thirteen specific behavioral objectives are listed. A pretest, consisting of matching 15 etching terms with their definitions, is provided along with an answer key. The remainder of the learning package teaches the 13 steps of the…

This report evaluates Boston's Title I Elementary Reading and Mathematics School Programs for 1980-81. Ninety-eight percent of students enrolled in the programs received Title I instruction five days a week. Instruction was highly individualized, and teachers and aides used individualized daily planning. On the average, students attended school on…

Both the Apple and TRS-80 microcomputer units are being used in the department of physical education at George Mason University (Virginia). As a first step, a computer program was developed and used in conjunction with an aerobic and personal conditioning class. (The capabilities of this specific program are discussed, and the ways in which it was…

The first section of this guide presents the Individualized Career Education Planning (ICEP) system, which provides major organizing and implementing components for comprehensive, individualized career guidance and instruction including: ICEP forms for recording career development goals and short-term objectives, guidance and instructional…

The attitudes of thirty-three secondary school student teachers toward individualizing instruction were assessed by the administration both before and after student teaching of the Individualized Instruction Inventory: these students were part of an experimental program in which each was assigned to an inner-city ghetto school. (Author/JM)

A computer-based resource unit in health and physical education would enable health and physical educators to share the benefits of each other's work. (RC)

Calls for increased attention by colleges to articulate their efforts with those of earlier schooling, out of school learning, and subsequent life-long learning, both formal and informal. Discusses various social trends which increase the need for attention to articulation. (JT)

Thirty-six studies on individualizing instruction in arithmetic are reviewed, and the general findings emerging from the combined research are discussed. (SD)

A pilot course in mastery learning in a survey course in English literature at the Beirut University College is described. The course was designed to increase the retention of knowledge and skills of students of another culture, utilizing the lecture-discussion method and the mastery learning concepts. (Author/RM)

The perpetual problem of being overwhelmed by instructional paper work resulting from an individualized instructional program led to the development of Managed Instruction with Computer Assistance (MICA) for use by the Sherman Elementary School staff in Madison, Wisconsin. (Author)

This article describes auto-tutorial units for teaching manual skills to occupational-therapy assistant students. (JS)