Jacqueline Cossentino's research looks at the culture of the family as it pertains to four birth-to-six centers: Montessori Partners Serving All Children, in St. Paul, MN, Crossway Montessori Communities in Kensington, MD, East Dallas Community Schools in Dallas, TX, and Family Star Montessori School, in Denver, CO. These programs met for the…

The National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education (NMEC) is the Federal Statutory Agency set up to co-ordinate all aspects of Non-Formal Education in Nigeria whether offered by government agencies or non-governmental organisations. This study looked at the existing Capacity Building Programme, the delivery methods, impact…

The major elements of the industry-based planning process can be successfully applied to the development and implementation of international projects in educational institutions. International education programs share the following fundamental structural elements with business and industry: they compete in the market place, and exist by managing…

A model of competency based teacher education for kindergarten through grade 12, and the processes by which it was developed, are explained. A data sheet on each of seventeen competencies identifies the desired teacher competency, pupil performance objectives under the Michigan Educational Assessment Program, enabling criteria for the campus and…

Issues that are basic to the present and future well being of 2-year colleges are discussed. These issues concern the need for 2-year colleges to rid themselves of their inferiority complex and to provide: broadened possibilities for curricular development; opportunity for helping people of all ages and background fulfill their educational needs;…

The ability of debate coaches and instructors to define the goals of their activity is essential to any meaningful evaluation of success in achieving those goals. Much of the criticism of debate rests on the faulty assumption that coaches and instructors agree as to what they are trying to teach students. Numerous writers have addressed the…

This workshop, which introduced a model for developing library instruction programs based on written objectives, provided participants with practical experience in preparing objectives as a basis for program planning through discussion of the various elements of planning such a program and analyses of case studies through assigned tasks. The first…

Combining goals from Teacher Corps and Individually Guided Education Programs, this paper presents seven mutually exclusive goals for teachers of middle school reading programs. They are: teachers will learn to conduct a needs assessment; teachers will involve parents and the community; teachers will use multicultural considerations in the reading…

This paper explores problems of construct validity in the evaluation of the Follow Through Planned Variation program. Comments center around political ramifications of the program evaluation design, insufficient knowledge on the part of program planners, the diversity of the experimental options, and the instability of the sample. It is suggested…

Education is criticized both for failure to accomplish its objectives and for the inappropriateness of those objectives. Perhaps there is a need for an educational system that is not directed toward specific, predetermined goals. It seems that educators have adapted the engineering and management applications of general systems theory. Instead of…

To formulate, justify, and establish priorities for high school debate goals, one must consider only those things that debate can uniquely offer to participating students. The most important goal that debate offers is the development of critical thinking. Educators must continue to develop critical thinkers who can anticipate, discover, and…

Model constructs of the relationship of program needs to educational objective setting in medical continuing education program development were outlined. Utilizing an inductive method of discovering theory as the major research method, five procedural models were derived. Data were collected from twenty respondents from ten university medical…

The paper offers the classroom practitioner the parameters for effective program development for the severely and profoundly handicapped. Focused on are the identification of annual goals for remediation, underscoring "reasonableness" in order that the child, parent, and teacher not become frustrated and, in turn, disenchanted. Also addressed is…

This paper concerns itself with a diverse set of applications of the Operationalization of Fuzzy Concepts (OFC) procedure -- a systematic method for breaking a fuzzy statement of intent, a goal, or a fuzzy concept, into observable, measurable components. The paper assumes that the reader has some prior familiarity with the technique. The…

Explores how quality in early childhood services is defined and examines the implications of working within the inclusionary approach. Argues that the choice of paradigm for working with quality is of the greatest importance for early childhood services. Concludes by noting that an inclusionary approach to quality fits best with the concept of…