Preparing Instructional Objectives, by Robert F. Mager, Fearon Publishers, Palo Alto, 1962. More general than the rest. Excellent discussion of grounding concepts.

A Programed Guide to Writing Auto-Instructional Programs, by James L. Becker, RCA Educational Programs, 1963, The best guide to actually making it work.

Programmed Learning, by Wendell I. Smith and J. William Moore, Van Nostrand, 1962. A compilation of many excellent papers.

Good Frames and Bad: A Grammar of Frame Writing, by Susan Meyer Markle, John Wiley & Sons, 1969. A very good work that builds on much of what was earlier learned about these methodologies.

Surprised that the list stops at this date? There may be a few later books, but in my opinion a very valuable educational methodology was discredited around the end of the 60's because although there were a few excellent books produced there were so many very poor books produced that the good were driven out by the bad. People would select some example of this kind of educational technology at random, experiment with it, find it wanting, and decide that the entire methodology must be worthless. As an example of excellence I offer a text on binary and other non-decimal number systems, called, I think, Computer Mathematics, a part of the now-defunct Tutor Text series. As an example of an extremely poor instance of this methodology I would offer Michael Scriven's auto-instructional book on logic.

Conditions for Second Language Learning, Spolsky, Oxford University Press, 1990.

Learning Strategies in Second Language Acquisitions, M O'Malley and A. U. Chamot, Cambridge University Press, 1989.

In Other Words: The Science and Psychology of Second Language Acquisition, Ellen Bialystok, Basic Books, 1994

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