Article considered the reorganization of colleges of education and an educational White Paper designed to affect those changes. (RK)

An application of behavioral objectives to the evaluation of contest debate. (CH)

Reviews four component behaviors of the affective domain: attending, receiving, valuing, and evaluating. (RB)

States that the most effective way of teaching specific chemical knowledge is through the use of explicit objectives; the most effective way of teaching the process of inquiry and the method of dealing with scientific information is through the use of implicit objectives. (MLH)

This is a guide to the nature, purpose, and potential uses of 13 course goal collections produced by the K-12 Goal Development Project through the cooperative efforts of the school districts and intermediate education districts of three counties in the metropolitan Portland, Oregon, area. The project has as its initial objective the production of…

This study examines, expecially for the rural district, ways to increase the effectiveness of college counseling for the whole community. The counselor often wants to refer an individual to a more specialized agency. Such referral is hard to make even in an urban setting, where the existing agencies are usually overcrowded, and worse in a rural…

A two-part instrument for evaluating education students in the practicum has been developed. Part 1 is designed to assess the student teacher's definition of instructional objectives, while Part 2 focuses on his implementation of those objectives. The student teacher is given both performance and explication ratings. Performance level is evaluated…

Reported is an experimental study by the Secondary School Mathematics Curriculum Improvement Study (SSMCIS) whose objective is the construction of a unified school mathematics curriculum for grades 7 through 12. More specifically, SSMCIS is concerned with the reconstruction of the entire mathematics curriculum. It attempts to eliminate the…

Described is the development and use of a scheme for probing arguments in defense of instructional objectives in science education. The perspective used in the development of the scheme is derived from a consideration of science curriculum as a practical enterprise, in the Aristotelian sense. Such a perspective sees curriculum action as the…

These behavioral objectives were developed for use at Fort Lincoln elementary school to be built in Washington, D.C. as part of the public school system. In many cases existing objectives were edited and adapted. Sources of these objectives include the Individualized Programed Instruction (IPI) reading and math curriculums developed at the…

This represents the latest in a series of efforts, on-going since 1965, to up-date and revise a listing of continuously received literature which pertains to the Taxonomy. (TL)

The purpose of this paper is to develop the framework for a teaching methodology based on the concept of experience, especially as that concept has been defined by John Dewey. The discussion is divided into three parts and the first section provides a summation and analysis of behavioral objectives (the current methodology). It is stressed that…