This document lists proposed environmental concepts for the high school education level of achievement. These concepts were developed by the Federal Interagency Committee on Education (FICE) for consideration by students, teachers, and others in the education community. These objectives are intended to cover the learning needed by an individual to…

The predominant emphasis in American education upon the cognate realm, to the virtual exclusion of affective learning, is discussed in the context of the middle school movement. Nine characteristics of the middle school program that more nearly create a balance between the cognitive and affective elements in learning are cited and translated into…

The general procedures used to develop educational objectives for the National Assessment of Educational Progress are outlined, as are the procedures used to develop citizenship objectives. Ten general objectives are stated: "show concern for the welfare and dignity of others"; "support rights and freedoms of all individuals";…

The empirical relationships among about 90 reading objectives were examined. The objectives span late first-grade through the sixth-grade (nominally). The results of contingency analyses and correlational analyses are reported. The identification of learning hierachies is stressed. Such hierarchies are apparent in the early learning of reading…

Research and development strategies designed and implemented at the Wisconsin Research and Development Center for Cognitive Learning and the Southwest Regional Laboratory are discussed in papers by the directors of each and by members of the R & D Center staff. These papers further give examples of the research and development activities underway…

This report describes the theory and 1st-year operation of the Educational Management System, a district-developed approach designed to identify and structure instructional program needs by emphasizing decentralized decisionmaking and focusing on intended program results. The report observes that educators using EMS will continually improve their…

Identifies four steps that students should employ in using objectives to study textual material and outlines the strategy intended to teach students these steps. (MH)

Report of a study to evaluate the potential systematically developed cognitive pretraining within the context of Air Force undergraduate flying training. (Author)

This article describes the curricular approaches to physical education which are currently recognized and practiced at the elementary level. These approaches are categorized as either traditional or contemporary, indicated by emphasis on either activities or themes. (MT)

Along with listening, reading, speaking and writing skills, schools must develop students' thinking skills. (JH)

Presents information gained from a study designed to evaluate the effectiveness of providing students with behavioral objectives, with a secondary purpose being to evaluate achievement results across the first four levels of Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives. No significant differences were found between knowledge and comprehension or…

The article lists and discusses examples of social studies performance objectives developed by the state of Michigan for both elementary and secondary schools. (RM)

Address at the 52nd Annual meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies.

The complete lesson enables the teacher to relate teaching strategies to levels of cognitive behavior, and stems from the belief that higher levels of cognitive behavior are developed only after a learner first acquires information and then puts that information to use. (Author)

Presents a basic examination of non-physical mental acts as educational objectives. (Author)