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Superka, Douglas P.; Harms, Norris – 1977
The document reports on a study of how different environmental education curriculum units affected secondary students' knowledge of and attitudes toward energy and environmental issues. The sample consisted of 16 secondary science and social studies teachers and 32 classrooms with over 600 students in nine Colorado school districts. Eight teachers…
Descriptors: Cognitive Objectives, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Objectives
Download full textMoody, David B. – 1974
The relative effectiveness of including behavioral objectives, classified according to the major levels of cognition, in independent study materials for high school juniors is analyzed in this brief summary of the author's dissertation. The three major questions under consideration are whether: (1) the use of behavioral objectives has an effect…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
Thorndyke, Perry W. – 1979
This paper investigates how people acquire knowledge from maps. Emphasis is placed on heuristics--defined as the procedures that people use to select, combine, and encode map information in memory. The objective is to develop a theory of expertise in map learning by analyzing differences between fast and slow learners in terms of differences in…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Cognitive Objectives, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style
Patel, Vimla; Cranton, Patricia A. – 1982
The use of an alternative methodology to study transfer of learning in clinical instruction during medical school was investigated. The environment in which clinical instruction takes place was examined, after which hypotheses were proposed and tested in a quasi-experimental design. The first phase of the study, an ethnographic analysis of the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Observation Techniques, Clinical Experience, Cognitive Objectives
Caputo, David A. – 1977
This study evaluates the results of innovation in teaching methodology in an American government college course. The assumption of the study was that organizing a course into modules which required students to be tested for proficiency after each module was presented would maximize student factual knowledge gain and would result in improved…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Objectives, Comparative Analysis, Course Evaluation
Cort, H. Russell, Jr.; Peskowitz, Nancy – 1977
The fourth volume of the summative evaluation of "Man: A Course of Study" (MACOS) contains all appended materials developed by the project staff to analyze the MACOS program. MACOS, one of the more elaborate and controversial developments of the New Social Studies, was designed in 1970 as a one year course based upon social science…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Anthropology, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Objectives
