This article offers suggestions for achieving the internationalization of university mathematics-related curricular offerings. It presents learning objectives and related student outcomes, raises general issues related to internationalization, and then discusses how to incorporate the objectives and address these issues within the university…

This paper discusses utilizing course objectives to drive the change of existing 10-15 week undergraduate courses into 8-week courses that feature blended learning tools. To begin the redesign process, instructors and a faculty mentor revisit course objectives for currency, and with an eye toward blended course restructuring. The restructuring is…

This foreign language curriculum guide for secondary school French and Italian includes the instructional objectives and activities for each language learning level and its corresponding suggested school grade. For French, there is a further breakdown according to language skills, grammar, reading, structures, conversation, and culture and…

This volume contains 20 case study profiles of educational RDD&E projects and, as such, constitutes the data base for the Oregon Studies. This part (Part 2) of Volume IV contains profiles of seven development projects along with information that describes the development of the profiles, explains how to read the profiles, and includes a glossary…

Systematic analyses of instructional objectives are requested more and more in educational contexts, but there is little agreement about what such analyses are and what value they have. A few possible criteria for goal analyses are outlined and illustrated: empiricism and comprehensiveness in seeking information, firm rules for decision-making on…

The paper proposes a curriculum development system for career education with the jobs skills that students will need as the basis for specifying behavioral objectives. It discusses job tasks, educational outcomes, learning experiences, and evaluation and includes two tables: (1) a classification of verbs related to a cognitive taxonomy and (2)…

The G-C-O-LP-G development plan is a step by step procedure for the development of a Goals-Concepts-Objectives-Lesson Plan-Guide which may be used by instructional leadership personnel. (Author/CB)

A need exists for a more clear-cut description of how the taxonomy of educational objectives can be implemented in the school setting. In answer to that need, a way is shown to formulate specific behavioral objectives within the hierarchy of the major levels and sublevels of the taxonomies as set forth by Bloom (1956) and Krathwohl (1964). To…

Attempts to resolve the issue of whether or not educational objectives should be framed exclusively, or even in behavioral terms. As well, the question, whether or not education itself should be goal oriented, is treated. (Author/RK)

The article consists of the preface, annotated outline, and bibliography for a seminar on Aethestics in Education. (EJS)

Stresses the importance of clarity and specificity of behavioral outcomes in the formulation of educational objectives. Suggests that curriculum development is more of an art than a science. (GC)

The purpose of this paper is analyzing the new Science and Technology curriculum, which was declared as the new primary school curriculum in August 2004 by Turkish Minister of Education (MoE), based on Posner's (2004) curriculum analysis framework. The written curriculum was examined and the findings were supported with a variety of resources…

The volumes present goals for use in planning and evaluating elementary and secondary school social studies curricula. The book is intended to help social studies classroom teachers identify learning goals. Organized according to major social science disciplines, the two-volume series is presented in six sections. Section I introduces the…

The 2012 National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education was designed to provide up-to-date information and to identify trends in the areas of teacher background and experience, curriculum and instruction, and the availability and use of instructional resources. A total of 7,752 science and mathematics teachers in schools across the United…