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A Brief History and Description of CRIMEL—A Curriculum Revision Project Designed to Individualize Instruction in Beginning College Mathematics
Author(s) -
Waits Bert K.,
Riner John W.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
school science and mathematics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.135
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 1949-8594
pISSN - 0036-6803
DOI - 10.1111/j.1949-8594.1975.tb09889.x
Subject(s) - curriculum , citation , mathematics education , library science , state (computer science) , computer science , mathematics , psychology , pedagogy , algorithm
For a number of years in the Mathematics Department at The Ohio State University we have been making a serious attempt to provide instruction in elementary courses in a way that takes into account the background, interest, ability, motivation and needs of the individual student [10]. Our instructional task at Ohio State is quite large. In addition, our students have an extremely wide range of backgrounds and abilities because, by law, Ohio State must accept any Ohio high school graduate. Closed circuit television and lecture-recitation instructional techniques that were developed in the late fifties and that are still used in most large enrollment courses involve rigid curricula presented in lock-step fashion [11]. These techniques were brought about by the rapid growth of college enrollments and the even more rapidly growing demand for mathematics in the early sixties. They were successful for a majority of students. However, in a time when the student found it increasingly difficult to retain his individuality, we felt it was important that an instructional system be developed with the intrinsic flexibility to deal better with individual differencesa working system that would make use of recent technology in order to optimize the effectiveness of our most important instructional resource, the classroom teacher. CRIMEL1 at Ohio State is such a system. Ultimately, we hope the teacher will be able to devote more time to the individual student and his unique needs. The reader should note that our philosophy, experiences and instructional techniques are applicable to a variety of courses in other academic areas in high school or college.