THIS PUBLICATION OUTLINES SOME OF THE TERMINAL BEHAVIORAL OBJECTIVES OF THE ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM. INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES WHICH SPECIFY EXPLICITLY WHAT SKILLS PUPILS HAVE MASTERED ARE INDICATED FOR MANY OF THE TOPICS OF MATHEMATICS. FOR EACH OBJECTIVE, AT LEAST ONE EXAMPLE IS GIVEN TO CLARIFY THE BEHAVIORAL CRITERION WHICH…

This document summarizes a curriculum workshop that defines individualization in terms of cognitive, psychomotor, and affective objectives. This definition is operationalized in objectives, evaluations, and resources keyed to nine individualization steps, which are documented by examples. A one-page planning matrix is used to sum up the nine…

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…

A history teacher suggests ways to approach the development of a set of working behavioral objectives in both the cognitive and affective domain. (KM)

A goal-oriented approach which relates counseling objectives to client presenting problems serves several purposes. It increases the client's investment in the change process of counseling and permits the counselor to become accountable by taking into account the client's needs, the counselor's contribution, and the resulting client change.…

Developing counseling goals with children is viewed here as an essential aspect of counseling; it helps both the counselor and the child to see the direction in which they are heading, and gives them a yardstick by which to measure success. Goal-oriented counseling can and should be a humanizing experience in which the child participates. (Author)

Based on author's doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, Teachers College, 1968. (Editor/RD)

The youth-led revolutions that rocked the Arab world earlier this year have refocused attention on the region's 100 million-strong youth demographic and its critical role in the transformation of existing political, economic, and social structures in the Middle East and North Africa. Youth under the age of 25 represent an estimated and…

This report presents the value-added models that will be used to measure school and teacher effectiveness in the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) in the 2010-2011 school year. It updates the earlier technical report, "Measuring Value Added for IMPACT and TEAM in DC Public Schools." The earlier report described the methods used…

We use the random assignment of a private Wisconsin need-based grant to estimate the impacts of financial aid on college persistence among Pell Grant recipients at 13 public universities over three years. For equity and efficiency reasons, governments use conditional cash transfers to reduce the relationship between family income and college…

California's education system is not keeping up with the changing demands of the state's economy--soon, California will face a shortage of skilled workers. Projections to 2025 suggest that the economy will continue to need more and more highly educated workers, but that the state will not be able to meet that demand. If current trends persist,…

The aim of this study was to test a training program intended to fine-tune the mental representations of double-digit numbers, thus increasing the discriminability of such numbers. The authors' assumption was that increased fluency in math could be achieved by improving the analogic representations of numbers. The study was completed in the…

It is always an enlightening experience to observe how ideas around change are executed. The Calgary Board of Education program for inducting new teachers into its system merited some investigation. For a period of six weeks, the authors participated in this process, with a view that, some elements of the program could be used in a similar format…