This evaluation finds that teachers prepared in the University of Nebraska's 3-year-old performance-based teacher education program, teach more effectively and like the preparatory program better than do traditionally prepared teachers. (Author/JH)

"In Part I of a two-part series, polysensory learning is defined in the context of a multi-media instructional system. (Editor)

Criteria to be used in evaluating the quality of the form in which Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) objectives are stated include writing the objective in terms of observable pupil behavior, stating the performance in terms of an "action verb", specifying the object of the action verb, stating the context or conditions for…

In this paper some of the literature on problems in education is reviewed and several of these problems are discussed. These are: (1) educational inequality; (2) coping with the knowledge explosion; (3) dealing with masses of students in the nation's large institutions of higher education; (4) youth dissatisfaction; and (5) the attempt to…

This document outlines the development of a program to increase the understanding of behavioral objectives. It is organized in the following sections: 1) Introduction, which examines the present state of education in the U.S. and the need for change; 2) An Educational Indictment, which attempts to find the causes of the present problems; 3) Why We…

A model is presented which incorporates certain features lacking in many schemes: it proceeds in a systematic manner; it addresses the interaction of cognitive processes and instructional task demands; it provides for continuous evaluation and modification; and it deals with measurable behaviors. It is divided into three components adapted from…

Advice to the administrator on the use of behavioral objectives to humanize'' schools. (SP)

The instructional system is designed so that each student may be treated as an individual. The role of the instructor must also be changed to accomplish this goal. (Author)

The article explains task analysis and the accompanying Task Analysis Outline that was written for use in the training phase of the Curriculum Development and Computerized Evaluation project at the Metropolitan School District in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Author/BP)

This task force report defines competency-based education (CBE) as a system of education designed to develop competencies in those who are products of the system. A distinction is made between CBE and performance based education (PBE) in this report. Although the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Committee on Performance-Based…

Accountability can be applied to reading instruction by matching instructional intent to the results in terms of observable learner accomplishment. An approach to accountability, based on Bloom's concept of student mastery of subject matter, consists of six components which the student passes through in the reading instructional process: (1)…