Self-directed activities designed to help elementary school students learn to use the cinquain and haiku poetic forms are presented in this booklet. An overall lesson plan including learning objectives, teaching approaches, and lists of materials needed for each task is provided, as is a record keeping form. Each of the eight chapters of the…

Research on individualized instruction for the gifted is reviewed, and several instructional models or techniques which may have potential for allowing teachers to individualize instruction for the gifted or all students are considered. Support is offered for the accelerated class model. Among the educational methods reviewed are internships,…

A project was conducted to adapt or develop and field-test an evaluation model for competency-based education, using Florida's Approach to Competency Based Individualized Teaching (FACIT) teacher-training materials for model development and field testing. Because of problems with the production of the FACIT materials, the field test of an…

This report focuses on two separate aspects of the longitudinal study of innovative instruction called Studies of Innovation. These aspects are the innovation being studied (the Instructional Programming Model of the Individually Guided Education Program) and the procedures used in selecting research sites. Following the introduction, Chapter 2…

This self-instructional text presents information on the design and development of curricular materials. Three broad divisions provide a framework for the text. Part I, "Background to Instructional Design," examines the goals of education, psychological bases of instruction, determination of subject matter, and necessary skills in formulating…

The assistance of Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the Public Health Service, St. Anselm's College has undertaken a change in the structure of its nursing training curriculum. The instructor has been transformed from a dispenser of discrete parcels of knowledge to a manager of the learning environment, and the student has been…

The individualized instructional unit is intended for use in inservice or preservice education of counselors and was designed to provide a clear, concise overview of career education and to help counselors understand precisely what their support duties are. The unit is divided into five sections, each based on performance objectives. At the…

This study attempts to elucidate some quantitative measures to assess the adequacy of adaptive decisions in individualized materials. The primary purpose of the study is to improve the curriculum developer's ability to generate better adaptive materials by improving his judgment of the quality of the diagnostic portions of his material in meeting…

This task force report defines competency-based education (CBE) as a system of education designed to develop competencies in those who are products of the system. A distinction is made between CBE and performance based education (PBE) in this report. Although the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Committee on Performance-Based…

A number of factors are having an impact on the relationship between academic institutions and the industrial user. These are manifested in a search for new ways in which cooperation in the development and implementation of continuing engineering education programs for the practicing engineer can be improved. This paper presents two examples of…

Harvie Branscomb was one of the pioneers in elucidating the interrelationship between the academic library and an institution's instructional program. His emphasis was on teaching with books, making them more accessible, and integrating them into the instructional program. Louis Shores expanded on this theme with his idea of a Library-College.…

Though recent decades have witnessed radical changes in the nature of the society, technology offers a way for schools to continue providing quality educational services. The combination of rapidly changing constituencies, an emphasis on cost-effectiveness, and the trend toward individualized learning presents educational needs that can be filled…

This research determined how the complex classroom ecology of differentiated (especially individualized) instruction affects (1) the ways teachers communicate knowledge about work procedures, deviance boundaries, and work values; and (2) teachers' perceptions of student orientation to such knowledge. Findings from a survey of 237 elementary school…

This book examines cooperation, competition, and individualization in the classroom. Although the authors admit to a preference for cooperation among students in learning situations, they also believe that there are times when competition and individualization may be more beneficial. These three goal structures are examined in terms of: (a)…

This document consists of a brief description of a continuum model of individualized instruction and a learning module on individualized instruction. The continuum model spreads the instructional components--objectives, diagnosis, instruction, and evaluation--on a continuum from teacher-directed to student-directed activity. The learning module is…