The aim of the study was to determine the levels of educational goals used by teachers in their daily preparation notes in Amman directorate of education, and whether their use varied according to the educational stage they are involving in, or years of experience or gender. The sample of the study consisted of (126) teachers teaching different…

This paper discusses R. S. Peters' concept of education, particularly his notion of cognitive perspective and its relevance to school science education. In light of the problems inherent in any attempt to define the notion of scientific literacy, it is argued that the development of cognitive perspective can be considered an important, if not the…

Core management courses bear a particularly challenging curricular as well as pedagogical burden insofar as they are typically the sole or primary vehicle for integrating management principles with larger university and school objectives. Compounding the challenge is that these very objectives are neither universally clear nor necessarily…

While the concept of objectives is widely used in many applied fields of instruction, the systematic derivation and application of objectives for learning and instruction is a key feature of systematic instructional design. However, the treatment of objectives and the terminology surrounding them is sometimes nebulously employed. This article…

We analyzed two educational frameworks that seek to embed "education for sustainable development" into higher education (HE). Both identify that HE is failing to educate graduates able to address the sustainability needs of society and suggest approaches to remedy the situation. We used discourse analysis and framing analysis to explore…

Intensive Interaction is an empirically researched approach to developing fundamental communication and sociability for people with severe and profound learning disabilities and/or autism. However, it is the author's contention that certain aspects of Intensive Interaction are not universally conceptualised in a uniform manner, and that there are…

Introductory biology courses are widely criticized for overemphasizing details and rote memorization of facts. Data to support such claims, however, are surprisingly scarce. We sought to determine whether this claim was evidence-based. To do so we quantified the cognitive level of learning targeted by faculty in introductory-level biology courses.…

The REAP tutoring system provides individualized and adaptive English as a Second Language vocabulary practice. REAP can automatically personalize instruction by providing practice readings about topics that match interests as well as domain-based, cognitive objectives. While most previous research on motivation in intelligent tutoring…

Contains a list of 50 thinking and reasoning skills, with classroom behavioral illustrations given for each. (RT)

Bloom (1956) pioneered the measurement of learning outcomes with a taxonomy of educational objectives, but educators often ignore affective learning objectives and focus on attaining cognitive objectives. This study examined student journals as a way to correct the overemphasis on cognitive objectives. Results suggested that course expectations…

More than 960 titles of bibliographies, texts, research reports, journal articles, theses and dissertations, conference presentations, and proceedings, monographs, programed instruction, instructional packages and multimedia kits appear in this bibliography. The major portion of these entries were either published or became available between 1965…

This booklet presents guidelines and procedures to facilitate the development and writing of performance objectives at different levels of specificity. Chapter 1 contains a brief review of performance objectives. Chapter 2 reviews behavioral variables under the three headings of cognitive variables, affective variables, and psychomotor variables.…

The taxonomy adopted for use with projects operating under the auspices of the Florida Educational Research and Development Program embodies five primary categories: motor skills, verbal information, intellectual skills, cognitive strategies, and attitudes. Performance objectives are classified in terms of the learning process required for the…

The purpose of the present study was to explore the conceptual scheme of the taxonomy within a conventional achievement oriented public school classroom by means of techniques that permitted a distinction between item difficulty and item complexity. (Author)