This document reports the proceedings of a conference and workshop at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Nursing on behavioral objectives. Presentations include: the management of learning; behavioral objectives and the teaching/learning process in nursing education; curriculum development; curriculum development in the SUNYAB…

Proceedings of the third conference of the Commission on College Physics are reported. Its main concern was to consolidate the work of earlier conferences: (1) the Denver Conference, dealing with the curricula of colleges which did not offer the Ph.D. in physics, and (2) the First Ann Arbor Conference, dealing with curricular matters of schools…

The task of the conference reported here was to exchange ideas about approaches taken to social science content in the new curricula. The hope was to contribute to the improvement of the large and growing amount of academically based curriculum work through interdisciplinary exposure. The major emphasis was on cognitive content and its…

The Conference report reviewed the status of man's environment and drafted guidelines for state education agencies to use for developing state programs related to environmental education. The six featured speakers and topics were: Kessler Cannon--"Report of the Governor's Committee on Natural Resources;" Dr. Harry…

This is a report on a month-long conference held during the summer of 1966 at Dartmouth College to analyze the teaching of the English.

Convened to offer a forum for discussion of values education to over 100 representatives of public and private schools, the conference explored moral dilemmas, educational trends, cognitive moral development, and educational objectives. The keynote address by values education exponent Dr. Edwin Fenton (Director, Carnegie-Mellon Education Center,…

SPEECHES AND REPORTS FROM A U.S. OFFICE OF EDUCATION CONFERENCE FOR STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SCIENCE SUPERVISORS CONSTITUTE THIS BOOKLET. THE CONTENT IS DIVIDED INTO THREE MAJOR SECTIONS WITH SEVERAL SPEECHES OR REPORTS IN EACH. SECTION 1, "EDUCATION IN AN AGE OF SCIENCE," CONSISTS OF THREE PRESENTATIONS CONCERNED WITH SUCH TOPICS…

Reported are the proceedings of a conference on the problems of training elementary teachers in mathematics and science. A small group of scientists, educators, and researchers representing school teachers from the elementary level through college, science and mathematics administrators and educators, scientists, government officials, and…

This is The Report of the 1967 Cambridge Conference on the Correlation of Science and Mathematics in the Schools. It is addressed to professionals in education, and is designed to stimulate dialogue among them concerning the mathematics-science curriculum. The report is organized in five chapters, each dealing respectively with (1) educational…

The Midwestern Conference for Visiting Fulbright-Hays Scholars, held at Ohio State University, May 14-16, 1973, was designed to be a forum for international cultural exchange of ideas between scholars with transnational interests. The theme was "Universities and Transnational Approaches to the Solution of World Problems." One primary objective of…

A foreign language (FL) teachers' congress held at Mainz in 1976 dealt especially with the level Secondary Grade 1, stressing such topics as course content, research on FL teaching, curriculum building, minimum goals for various target language, orientation courses and honors courses. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

This publication includes the proceedings of the December 1974 long-range academic planning workshop for the 1974-75 Cooperative Academic Planning (CAP) consortium, the first in a series on curriculum change for this new consortium. This workshop represents a new thrust for the CAP program in terms of establishing coordinating and comprehensive…

This report discusses the progress of a task force interested in improving the quality of teaching and sophistication of student knowledge in the area of international relations and international studies. The report has two sections, history and organization, and a progress report. The first section outlines the rationale, goals and specific areas…

THIS REPORT TAKES THE POSITION THAT SCIENCE SHOULD BE TAUGHT TO DEVELOP STUDENTS WITH BEHAVIORS WHICH INDICATE (1) AN ABILITY TO ENGAGE IN SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT, (2) AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE RELATIONS BETWEEN SCIENCE, SOCIETY, AND TECHNOLOGY, (3) THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONAL SCIENCE INTERESTS AND APPRECIATIONS, AND (4) AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE MAJOR…