This article describes the power of goal-setting in order to help children become self-motivated and responsible for their actions. It also provides a road-map for a successful process by describing the following strategies: changing negative thoughts into positives, creating affirmations, designing action plans and utilizing visualization. This…

This paper focuses on goal setting in instruction of exceptional students. Goals types and such properties as specificity, proximity and difficulty are discussed, along with additional factors including feedback, commitment, participation, and student ability. Goal setting guidelines for reading, writing, mathematics, assignment completion, and…

Advocates the use of clear instructional objectives in agricultural courses. Provides an explanation of instructional objectives according to Bloom's Taxonomy and includes suggestions for writing and using them. Also contains examples of objectives with accompanying examination questions related to the study of crop production. (ML)

Discusses origins of action planning and action plans and possible influence of different antecedents on practice. Analysis indicates a lack of clarity concerning the origins of the process. Influence of contrasting models appear to remain unrecognized, and training needs of helpers, particularly for guidance skills, are underestimated. (FC)

Described are science objectives for middle schools. Suggested objectives include recognition of student physical and intellectual development; problem solving skills; integration of science, math and social science skills; and development of creative curricula to assist early adolescents to cope in a scientific and technological world. (DS)

Identifies a process for determining program content that will be relevant to adult life goals. Lists conclusions of research that can serve as testable hypotheses and practical guidelines for program planners. Models a possible approach to the treatment of data yielded in applied research. (NRJ)

With burgeoning numbers of programs available for mid-life education, accurate descriptions of program objectives and rationale can help potential participants identify the programs that will meet their needs. (SK)

Findings of this November 1980 study indicated that outdoor education staff and classroom teachers should consider not only what they perceive to be important, but also, what children and parents consider important as outcomes and activities for resident outdoor education (ROE). An opinionnaire, designed to test whether participant groups in ROE…

Article describes study exploring the reasons chosen by men and women for participating in educational activities. Seven groups of reasons were identified: desire to know; desire to reach a personal, social or religious goal; desire to escape; desire to take part in an activity; and desire to comply with formal requirements. (Author/JB)

Presents a discussion justifying science education in the current era of vocationalism. (SL)

Tested a conceptual model of influences from students' goals for college on freshman-year growth. Degree aspiration level was a significant influence on intellectual gains, and social goals surpassed both degree aspiration level and career certainty as influences on personal-social gains. These variables influenced outcomes in part because they…

Presented is a booklet for teenagers about life planning. It discusses hopes and dreams that adolescents may have and gives tips for reaching goals. A sentence completion exercise is included to help readers set goals. Four important goals for teenagers are presented and discussed: (1) graduating from high school; (2) waiting to have a baby; (3)…

As part of an effort to understand and reduce an unacceptable attrition rate at Kirkwood Community College (KCC) in Iowa, a study was conducted to determine students' reasons for coming to the college. All 584 students who applied for admission to KCC in winter 1984 were mailed a copy of the Student Goals Inventory, an instrument which assesses…

A study was made of the relationships of goals of women whose children were grown to their major activities and the satisfactions derived from them. A sample of 271 women, was categorized by major activity. Buhler's Life Goal Inventory and a questionnaire which included self-report satisfaction scales, time spent and satisfaction rating for…

When students enter the classroom they are confronted with a wide variety of goals to strive for, activities to engage in, and challenges to face, across a number of domains: academic, artistic, sporting and social. Recently, there has been a growing recognition of this complexity of goals among researchers interested in student's motivational…