The present study was designed to determine if students would improve their test performance in order to earn the right to self-evaluate their daily tasks, and then, whether they would maintain high test performance in order to keep this privilege. A second purpose was to demonstrate a practical way in which teachers could effectively reduce the…

PLAN is a computer-managed individualized learning program with two major goals: to provide each child with an individualized program of studies in the language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies and to involve students in making decisions and assuming responsibility for their own learning. A computer assists the teacher by scoring and…

The SOLVE story begins with a History of SOLVE and a Statement of Need. The needs of the member schools of SOLVE are nearly all focused on staff development skills. In the section on Staff Development the writers of this project have detailed some expectations for teachers in the individualization of instruction. Also in this section are detailed…

In a national study of individualized instructional programs for the U.S. Office of Education, Jack V. Edling of the Oregon State System of Higher Education, Corvallis, conducted an in-depth survey of 46 programs in 24 States. PREP kit, No. 16, reports on that study in 13 documents, covering such subjects as objectives of individualized…

Curriculum designers have derived data for instructional purposes from 1) the subject matter, 2) society, and 3) the learner. The computer plays an instrumental role in individualizing the presentation of curriculum derived from these sources. Research on instruction has concerned itself with devising material for individual needs and adapting…

For the next ten years, at least, it would almost certainly be prohibitively expensive for a student to receive a major part of each day's instruction in a direct individual dialogue with a computer. Furthermore such a system would not teach a student to interact effectively with other humans, to communicate the results of his labors to others, or…

This Technical Report is concerned with various problems of instructional management encountered in situations which stress self-selection and self-pacing principles. These problems deal primarily with the efficient utilization and allocation of human and material resource materials to formulate an operational, individualized, inquiry-learning…

Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) represents a significant innovation in education because it is one of the first successful operations of individualized instruction on a systematic basis throughout an entire school from kindergarten through sixth grade. The aim of IPI is to have the student regularly experience successful learning so that…

Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI) is surveyed in terms of both the extent of research progress as well as the degree of utilization for this new technological approach to education. After a brief review of some of the critical terminology used to describe research progress within CAI, a conceptual framework by which to consider current…

This booklet is a sample activity from an individualized instruction unit in mathematics. Agreement between the performance specified in the units' objectives, the performance taught in the instruction activity, and performance required on the posttest was a key criterion during the development of this material. The student is told what he is…

Achievement and intelligence tests have been criticized for their adverse effects on the mental health and intellectual development of children. The fault is not with the testing, but with the instructional program. Reforms in testing must be accomplished as part of a revolution in the total instructional program encompassing: (1) a shift from a…

Much current disaffection among university administrators comes from the preoccupation of higher education with structure and its inability to deal seriously with PROCESS. "This paper is an attempt to develop a new conception of a college in which process and individuality predominate, and structure and system are seen as means to…

As a result of experience with teacher aides, curriculum change, and a student independent study project based on student use of self-operated technological devices, a 4-year project in the Niskayuna, New York, schools has been planned which combines the training and continuing education of teachers (within the normal working day) and more…

Problems which will fact reading teachers in the future are discussed, and innovative possibilities are described. The following conclusions are reached. Varying environments create greater differences in children than existed previously, making individualized instruction necessary. Technological progress has opened new fields to education which…

This document contains the four appendixes to the final report (SP 003 269). Appendix A contains information on the Nova Educational Complex (part of the South Florida Education Center in Fort Lauderdale) where the study was conducted. Included are outline descriptions of the Nova High School curriculum and personnel and of the physical plant and…