The major goal of the "Learning Tutors Offer Instructional Assistance" project was to effect positive academic, social, and attitudinal changes in the participant. The participants included high school tutors and elementary school tutees who met and worked together on a daily basis. The activities for the tutorial sessions were decided…

Three alternatives for education in the future are presented in the paper, which was initially delivered as a university graduate school lecture. The author first describes three groups of children with different life environments--the advantaged, the silent majority, and the disadvantaged. The significance of possible educational alternatives is…

The concept of progress by examination at Hampshire College is discussed in one of a series of progress reports on the college in its attempt to redefine the nature of liberal arts education. A student's academic progress is measured by examinations rather than by credit hours and grades. The system has been enthusiastically supported by the…

A model for evaluating the extent to which instruction is individualized is described. The model is based on a conceptualization of individualization which focuses on observable teacher behavior resulting in the manipulation of classroom environmental and instructional variables to meet the needs of individual learners. For evaluation purposes…

The materials contained in this package are designed to aid Community College of Vermont (CCV) associate degree students in the development and implementation of their own written, individualized, competence-based learning contracts. As development of the contract requires both assessment of prior learning and planning for sponsored learning, the…

An investigation of learning styles was jointly conducted by the Fox Valley Technical Institute and the Center for Vocational Technical and Adult Education at the University of Wisconsin at Stout. After a study of learning styles, a computerized model to manage an instructional system was developed. Analysis of information necessary to manage a…

The Federally-sponsored manpower development project is concerned with two major issues: (1) ways to determine what particular services are needed by given clients in manpower programs for the disadvantaged, and (2) ways to organize a manpower program so that each individual receives appropriate services to fulfill individual needs. Following two…

Nineteen geographically distributed secondary schools were linked with research and development resource groups for the purpose of implementing a 5-year learner-centered curriculum. The ultimate goal was to have each of the schools serve as a demonstration center for regionally continguous school districts. The changes attempted were the products…

This report, the second of two relating to the activities of the Southeast Education Center, describes the middle school facilities of the Center. The Center was organized on the "Continuous Progress Concept"--that in which a student will move at his own pace in an individualized program. The entire Southeast Education Center proposes to…

The projected "continuous progress" plan to be featured by a Seattle southeast area Middle School is an integrated organization of professional educators, curriculum, instructional modes and media, facilities, and administrative management in a program which guides the cognitive and affective development of individual students throughout…

Instructional materials for independent learning include two sample units taken from a full-year, 12-unit, Latin 2 course. The units direct the student in the study of irregular adjectives and adverbs, the passive tenses of regular verbs, indefinite pronouns, indirect commands, and descriptive clauses. The unit description lists the forms,…

This collection of readings was prepared for vocational and technical educators who are interested in individualized instruction. The material provides an overview of individualized instruction in vocational and technical education as well as its development, implementation, practice and evaluation. The book is divided into four parts. Part 1…

A developmental project created prototype individualized instructional materials for the Inventory Management (IM) Course which could be incorporated into the Air Force Advanced Instructional System (AIS). Typical course segments and a final block of instruction were selected, and instructional materials were developed for these units. The…

Individually Guided Education/Multiunit Schools-Secondary (IGE/MUS-S) is a research and development project currently in operation at the University of Wisconsin. As often happens in education, the operational need for the project was so great that it came into existence before it was formally justified in theory. This paper attempts to discuss…

The purpose of this study was to identify any increase or decrease in expenditures among a stratified sample of schools during their first year of implementing the system of Individually Guided Education in the Multiunit Elementary School (IGE/MUS-E). IGE/MUS-E is a comprehensive educational system incorporating several innovative educational…