Procedures for establishing school goals and objectives, after having completed the needs assessment, are discussed. A distinction is drawn between goals and objectives in that goals are general future targets, whereas learner outcome objectives are behavioral statements of all or some aspect of goal statement. Five steps in setting goals and…

Procedures for program development, to take place after needs assessment and the establishment of learner goals and objectives, are described. Three phases are involved in program development: (1) program alternatives are explored; (2) the resources necessary to implement a program are compared to the existing school resources; and (3) process…

Designed for use in a 2-day workshop, this handbook explains the advantages of using measurable objectives in career education and includes techniques for writing the objectives. One day (6 hours) should be devoted to the handbook, and a second to writing work sessions. Arranged in outline format, the color-coded handbook incorporates sections on:…

Deals with the activities and services that must be maintained by a Chicano counseling program to provide for the needs of the Chicano student. These services include academic advising, personal counseling, vocational-career counseling, tutorial service, and other miscellaneous activities. (Author)

The program development process for substance abusers is very challenging. Planning and evaluation in substance abuse prevention and treatment is continuously affected by change. It requires extraordinary flexibility, adaptability, and creativity to insure that programs are designed to effectively meet the multiple needs of the clientele.…

Discussed the development and implementation of programs in the arts. (RK)

Profile training should be designed to develop the four basic interaction skills of situation analysis, interaction objective establishment, behavior planning, and behavior monitoring. (KP)

The report is a bibliography and a review of the literature on drug education. It contains generalizations founded on the opinion of experts as well as the experiences of school systems attempting to add programs to their curriculum. (Author)

The strategic and operational planning necessary to develop an effective college health service is discussed. (JD)

Accountability in its real meaning is a process of behavioral planning in which the teacher leads the student towards specific observable goals, estimates the time of arrival, selects the most appropriate methods, and determines the degree of achievement. (MB)

Setting organizational or program objectives is seen as requiring three steps (brainstorming goals for the year, prioritizing them, and visualizing them as smaller, discrete tasks) and six principles (making goals group-specific, setting deadlines, being realistic and explicit, writing down goals, defining measurable steps, and creating…