This booklet outlines guidelines for choosing a teaching technique and describes a wide variety of techniques. It is intended as an aid to teachers of all subject matters. The first chapter develops a number of principles for choosing a teaching technique appropriate to a given situation, and divides techniques into three categories: 1) real-life,…

This self-study program for high-school level contains lessons on: Algebra, Powers and Roots, Geometry, and Number Series. Each of the lessons concludes with a Mastery Test to be completed by the student. (DB)

This self-study program for high-school level contains lessons on: Free Trade and Tariffs; Capitalism, Communism, Socialism; and Nationalism vs. Internationalism. Each of the lessons concludes with a Mastery Test to be completed by the student. (DB)

This self-study program for high-school level contains lessons on: Atomic Structure and Valence, Chemical Bonding, The Table of Elements, and Electrolysis. Each of the lessons concludes with a Mastery Test to be completed by the student. (DB)

An Advanced General Education Program has been designed to prepare an individual with the information, concepts, and general knowledge required to successfully pass the American Council on Education's High School General Education Development (GED) Test. The Advanced General Education Program provides comprehensive self-instruction in each of the…

A total of 24 four-year-old children were posed with the paired-associate task of learning where 9 different animals lived, using apparatus designed for self instruction through picture matching. In Experiment I, children, who were taught to prompt themselves as needed by referring to a picture book, attained almost perfect scores, significantly…

An early education program undertaken by Williamsburg County Schools for children from kindergarten through grade 3 to counteract continuing problems of failure and low achievement throughout the school system is described. The plan calls for establishing a sound county-wide kindergarten program for five year olds; providing individualized…

This document describes a series of seminars held over a 2-year period to help plan for independent and individualized instruction. The first year seminars resulted in the conception of a 2-dimensional system into which all independent and individualized instructional programs could be fitted -- i.e., the means or media (the ways of getting to the…

The methods for cooperative education developed at the University of Lethbridge reflect the commitment to the criterion of academic quality, high faculty input and participation, on-site supervision, and an optimal range of vocational experiences recognized through the awarding of significant amounts of degree credit. (Editor/LBH)

Explains the videotex technology and its current uses in business, banking, news, and entertainment. Describes a project underway at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in which the potential of using videotex in education is being explored. Provides examples of videotex use in indepentent study, courses, and home study. (TW)

A study of 753 utilities company workers examined the relationship between a measure of worker self-directed learning readiness and their job level, sex, age, education, race, job performance rating, creativity and problem-solving ability needed in their jobs, and the degree of change inherent in their work. (Author/MSE)

Discusses some of the problems associated with requiring a highly structured set of laboratory exercises in undergraduate biochemistry courses. Describes a program where students perform short-term independent projects after completing experiments which introduce basic concepts and techniques. Provides lists of the experiments and some typical…

Differential effects on "Attitudes toward Disabled Persons" scores were determined for presentations by independent study, lecture, and film as instructional methodologies. Participants were trade and industrial teachers at a required workshop. Significant differences between pre- and post-intervention and among the three methodologies exists.…

Describes the Jefferson County Open High School (Colorado) in suburban Denver, a public alternative secondary school of choice devoted to developing student potential through emphasis on individualization and self-directed learning. Explores the school's programs and describes the educational philosophy which recognizes individual rates of…

Discusses actual costs for developing independent study print courses for use in learning centers or for distance delivery, and presents a resource allocation guideline based on figures from Grant MacEwan Community College (Alberta). Topics discussed include the course writer/developer, clerical support, copyright clearance, instructional design,…