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examination of compensatory education. Included in that legislation was the spe-cific directive to conduct a detailed study of the effectiveness of materials and pro-cedures for meeting the educational needs of individual children. As a result of that Congressional mandate, NIE requested proposals for the design of a study to as-sess the effectiveness of individualized instruction as it is currently used by com-pensatory programs in schools (NIE, 1975, p. 4). In that request for proposals, the NIE staff indicated they wanted a study that contrasted individualized instruction (in-
Cooley et al. (Tue,) studied this question.