The author presents a possible generic model for educational management and attempts to relate this model to several tools currently being used for the quantifiable improvement of education." Appended are 33 references. (Author/AA)

Examines four factors involved in the determination of how many test items should be constructed or sampled for a set of objectives: (1) the type of decision to be made with results, (2) importance of objectives, (3) number of objectives, and (4) practical constraints. Specific guidelines that teachers and evaluators can use and an illustrative…

This fifth in a series of edited transcripts based on a conference at Utah State University compares elements in Gagne's Events of Instruction with Merrill's Component Display Theory (CDT). Topics discussed include presenting objectives to the student; prior learning; stimulus and guidance; and presentation forms. (six references) (LRW)

Describes an integrated instructional design approach that addresses cognitive, attitudinal, and behavioral aspects of learning and is based on three theoretical frameworks: instructional systems design, social learning theory, and the stages of change framework provided in the Transtheoretical Model of Change. (LRW)

Discusses the affective domain and its relationship to instructional systems design. Topics include social problems rooted in the affective domain of behavior, the cognitive versus the affective domain, emotions, emotions and information processing, specifying learning outcomes in the affective domain, and targets of instructional analysis.…

A discussion of how a systematic reduction of behavioral objectives to a manageable form was performed in Mentor, Ohio. (HB)

A scheme that can be used in developing objectives and procedures to insure continuity between the definition of needs and the subsequent solution design. (Author)

A discussion of how the computer has compelled educators to devise new education experiences by which students can acquire information. (Author/HB)

The author suggests that schooling currently suffers from a confusion of aims and that this confusion might adversely affect test scores. He also suggests what might be done to improve the prognosis. (JY)

This report focuses on a suggested technology for analysis and evaluation of courses in the course master file of a university. (Author)

An algorithm or decision chart is presented which provides basic decision steps to help management decide what data should be collected to derive valid and correct objectives, and to determine what levels of objectives will be selected relative to products, outputs, or outcomes of an organization. (MBR)

This article provides for the teacher a global perspective of social studies objectives with respect to the behaviors needed by the citizen to live in his social world." (Author)