PSI - A Promising Innovation in the Technology of Instruction.

Abstract

The Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) is an innovative approach to teaching and learning which has spread rapidly in psychology and the sciences in the past five years. Common features of PSI courses include: student pacing, mastery learning, peer tutors/proctors, emphasis on the written word, and repeatable testing. The author is utilizing PSI for the third semester in a junior-level personnel management course and reports favorable results on both content mastery and student attitudes. These results are consistent with those of numerous other investigators reporting comparative research on PSI versus traditional methods of instruction. PSI is predicted to spread into business education in the next decade, with beneficial effects on both individual courses and entire curricula.