The purpose of this investigation was to ascertain attitudes of university faculty toward curriculum and instructional techniques, and to discover the patterns of interrelationships between such attitudinal patterns. In general, the findings indicate that those faculty who tend to hold traditional and/or structured attitudes toward curriculum, who…

A method of instructional design suitable for any educational level--elementary, secondary, or college--is presented. The method can be applied first to individual subject topics, to unit developments, and then to complete course development. The text considers the following topics: a plan for instructional design, including statements of precise…

This report describes a process which assists the education planner in specifying strategies of instruction. The purpose of this process is to make the judgment of the planner an integral part of the design process. This is done by externalizing the planner's judgments as to what constitutes effective instruction and translating these judgments…

This research deals with optimizing the instructional process. The approach adopted was to limit consideration to simple learning tasks for which adequate mathematical models could be developed. Optimal or suitable suboptimal instructional strategies were developed for the models. The basic idea was to solve for strategies that either maximize the…

Discussed are instructional content and approaches in early childhood education. A literature review presents a definition of instructional content and covers a diversity of opinions and approaches to the education of children in preschool and kindergarten. Presented in a general comments section is the author's definition of instructional…

Discusses a need to develop and adopt a system of documentation that is an integral part of the instructional development process. (Author)

A set of learning outcomes for an Instructional Programmer training program is presented along with a description of a project undertaken to develop the program and an information system for operational accountability. (Author)

A speculative outline of a psychology of instruction as a science of design is presented. (DEP)

Discusses a four-phase development model which was deliberately constructed to eliminate the boxes and arrows commonly used to illustrate how development works. A well organized development system would be too complex to diagram, and if it were diagrammed, no one could follow it. (Author/JEG)

The program of research summarized in this paper attempts to shed new light on the viability of the protocol concept for teacher education. (DS)

The process of designing instructional sequences in the creation of instructional materials to be delivered via computer-based systems is defined. Charts depict functions for computer-learner, and computer-teacher/author. Flow charts also present four response categories: linear, looping, branching, and off-line. (RAO)

It will be the job of instructional designers to find the knowledge structure underlying various subject matter areas and to redesign materials so that they become more accessible to beginners in a new discipline. The problem is to find procedures for bringing such structures into being as efficiently as possible. (VT)

This paper deals with a possible way of separating six modes of needs assessment (Kaufman, 1972) into two types. The most common, internal, looks at needs from within the organization, and external needs assessment looks at needs from the outside of the organization doing the study. (VT)

The use of Educational Cognitive Style Mapping (a symbolic orientation set of cultural determinants, modalities of inference, and memory) for individual students enables the educator to design and implement instructional settings based upon learner strengths. (MJB)

A training consultant writes about the common practice of training for appearances and the length of time spent on it, rather than for the actual outcomes. He stresses the importance of well-designed instructional objectives as a means of judging training effectiveness and offers a questionnaire for trainers to try out to check their knowledge of…