The preservice foreign language teacher training program in the individualization of instruction at Utah State University incorporates several components: (1) systems of accountability and mastery learning, which consist of rigorous systems of quality control; (2) personalized curricula through the expansion of the elective phase of the programs;…

As a part of the Individualized Teacher Preparation materials, several ideas and suggestions for objective and individual evaluation of student progress are presented in this 1973 version of the module designed for in-service teachers to prepare themselves for teaching the individualized and activity-centered Intermediate Science Curriculum Study…

Providing an education that meets the needs of individual learners has generated a variety of programs to individualize instruction. This variety has motivated the development of a descriptor to relate features of instructional programs which offer individualization. This descriptor identifies, quantifies, and graphically represents the…

This study investigated the effectiveness of an observational technique developed to study characteristics of the Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) system and the extent to which IPI adapts to individual student differences. Subjects for the study were students from a second grade IPI classroom of an inner-city public elementary school.…

Guidelines to the SPELLINGCLUES project are presented. This is a computer-assisted instructional program designed to help college students correct spelling errors by providing them with spelling drills. The booklet consists of two sections. Part I, the Instructor's Manual, covers four topics: 1) the type of student for whom the program is…

This report describes the stratified adaptive (stradaptive) test as a strategy for tailoring an ability test to individual differences in testee ability; administration of the test is controlled by a time-shared computer system. The rationale of this method is described as it derives from Binet's strategy of ability test administration and…

The Competency Oriented Personalized Education Program (COPE) was developed by the Washington State University education faculty as a model of a competency-based and individualized teacher preparation program to meet the needs of a dynamic social enterprise. The essence of the COPE program is a learning model which has three basic stages:…

Grades, as conventionally conceived and used, are failing the educational system. There are numerous mistakes made in the computation of grades and grade point averages. They become the end of the educational endeavor instead of an evaluation procedure. They are psychologically damaging to two-thirds of the students because of their inability to…

The Secondary Education Individualized Instruction Project is an attempt to place the preservice course, SED 351--Teaching in Secondary Schools, on an individualized mode, using a systems-oriented, competency-based approach. During the summer session of 1970, the specification of course objectives and development of instructional packers was…

This 102-item annotated bibliography lists documents and journal articles published between 1967 and 1970. Citations are grouped under six categories or problems. The first section lists documents describing the characteristics of actual or proposed programs of performance-based teacher education. The second section contains items related to…

This document describes the present activities of and recommends improvements for the Ohio Youth Commission, an organization designed to provide treatment and rehabilitative services for socially deviant youths. (LLR)

This paper is a statement prepared for the General Subcommittee on Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, U.S. House of Representatives. In it the Texas R&D Center's programs in the personalization of teacher education are outlined, including examples of the process at work in experimental projects in the University of Texas College of…

The readings presented here are the result of a review of numerous professional journals (dating from 1960 on), curriculum bulletins, other publications by district and county offices, and addresses and materials prepared for workshops and conferences. The materials chosen were felt to be the most significant descriptions of individualization as a…

This self-pacing program is the result of a cooperative curriculum development project between The Maryland Department of Education and The Baltimore County Schools. Included is a teachers guide for the use of the materials. The philosophy of this approach is that of individualization of instruction wherein the student moves at a pace commensurate…

This self-pacing program is the result of a cooperative curriculum development project between The Maryland Department of Education and The Baltimore County Schools. Included is a teachers guide for the use of the materials. The philosophy of this approach is that of individualization of instruction wherein the student moves at a pace commensurate…