This document contains the proceedings of a two-day meeting sponsored by the Public Health Service of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Representatives from more than 60 national groups from the public and private sectors participated in discussions of health promotion objectives for the nation and formulated recommendations on how…

The article discusses education from the perspectives of the different social sciences and concludes that schools should provide an environment that gives men power to open new horizons and to show new aspects of humanity from the vantage points of many different schemes and patterns. (PD)

Discusses educational accountability as the paradigm of performance contracting, presents some arguments for and against accountability, and discusses the goals of education and the responsibility of the teacher. (Author/PG)

Excerpts from an address presented to the New Consciousness Education Conference on May 5, 1973 at the invitation of the International Cooperation Council. (HMD)

This article is in response to another article in this journal. The first article adds to the list of educational objectives that of developing self-esteem in children. The author of this article wonders what exactly is meant by self-esteem. (HMD)

The past is viewed against the context of the present through early writings relevant to the 1971 Career and Occupational Development Objectives of the National Assessment of Educational Progress. (Author) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Procedures (Objectives Development).

Evaluators are becoming increasingly specialized and new techniques developed in one subfield are often not well known in other subfields. Goal Attainment Scaling is a procedure originally developed to evaluate individualized treatment outcomes in mental health agencies. However, as a general evaluation procedure it also provides a flexible tool…

The goals bank is one of a number of support services currently being developed by the Rhode Island Department of Education to help school districts begin implementing the Local Planning and Assessment Process. The bank was designed to mark out general areas, to describe what a goal looks like, and to present the reader with a multitude of…

Article examined three end goals of education, provided a general discussion of the individualistic nature of goal-oriented behavior thereby looking at the materials and methods required for humanistically individualizing instruction. (Author/RK)

Author described how he prepared students in advance of a poet's visit to their school, how the poet worked with students in the classroom, and quoted some of the poems they wrote. (Author/RK)

Article intends to help solve the dilemma regarding the advisability of using behavioral objectives. (Author/HB)