All teachers interested in maximizing the likelihood of student learning should look carefully at the selections available below. In particular, if you don't know very much about Fred Keller's Personalized System of Instruction (PSI), take a quick look at Gallup and Allan's paper by clicking on the Concerns choice (here or below).
If you’re interested in seeing a
relatively current
list of PSI users and reading about some of
their experiences, click on the:
To be included in the list of users
(past, present, and future)
Click Here
Please provide your name, affiliation, and email address,
and (optionally) a brief statement about your
involvement in the use of PSI
or your ideas for how PSI
might be implemented in the future.
A tribute to Fred Keller at
the 2001
Eastern Psychological
Association meeting
in
Also: Howard Gallup’s Introduction of Gil Sherman at
the same meeting
In addition, all users of PSI (past, present, and future) may leave an email message with Bob Allan at allanr@lafayette.edu so that we can add your name to our list of those interested in the usefulness of PSI.
Other clickable options:
- Essential components in the design of a PSI course
- A brief history of Keller's Personalized System of Instruction (under construction)
- A list of users (past, present, and future) of programmed instruction or PSI (under continual construction); clickable email addresses are available on this page for most of those listed.
- Related research papers: Access to data indicating the efficacy of the PSI approaches, including comparisons with other techniques currently in vogue
- Eastern Psychological Association 1996 Symposium on PSI
- Eastern Psychological Association1997 Keller & Schoenfeld Memorial Symposium; "Fred Keller and PSI," a talk by Howard F. Gallup
- Tribute
to Fred Keller- "Variations on a Theme" - A talk by Howard
F. Gallup in a session at the Association for Behavior Analysis (ABA),
May, 1998. This talk, as it appears on this site, also contains a handout
distributed to those attending the session at
- Spotlight
on PSI - Personalized System of Instruction; A retrospective of PSI at
- Concerns with some recent criticisms of the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI)
- A radical alternative educational system: Look at the fictional Walden College! Is this a vision of the future? Think about what you're using to read this article right now!!
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Department of Psychology,
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