The goal of this study is to better understand how the study participants' cognitive discourse is displayed in their learning transaction in an asynchronous, text-based conferencing environment based on Garrison's Practical Inquiry Model (2001). The authors designed an online information ethics course based on Bloom's taxonomy of educational…

The educational goals, as adopted formally or tentatively by the respective States, have been compiled in this single document. The goals were obtained by a survey conducted by the State Educational Accountability Repository (SEAR), a program of the Cooperative Accountability Project (CAP), administered by the State of Colorado. The predominant…

Precise guidelines for designing and developing curriculum materials from vigorously defined behavioral objectives are presented. The guidelines are designed to enable an educator to identify all the objectives appropriate for a unit of instruction, to define a procedure for ordering or programing objectives into an educational sequence, and to…

Authors propose a taxonomy of educational objectives in the experiential domain. (HB)

Authors propose a taxonomy of educational objectives in the experiential domain. (HB)

Through a management by objectives technique, the manager of informational services develops a viable plan for: (1) identifying users' needs; (2) stating goals and objectives in measurable and manageable terms; and (3) organizing an efficient system for meeting the bibliographic and informational needs of his users. (Author)

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

This paper is intended to serve as a stimulant to further research and efforts in the area of affective evaluation. The questions in this paper were written with the following question in mind: How can I as a teacher know what impact I have had on the values of my students for this particular course? The affective behavioral objectives were made…

Career education is an attempt to conceptualize the whole program of education as a single developmental process--which has as its primary focus the individual and his development as a contributing member of society. It is intended to provide an educational process for all students to help them: (1) develop self-awarness, (2) develop positive…

Cognitive objectives provide an alternative to behavioral objectives which have been so eagerly and uncritically accepted by instructional technologists. (Author/STS)

Preoccupation with process has been obscuring the real management objective of increasing effectiveness and the ability of organizations to cope with rapidly changing situations. (Author)

Discusses common misconceptions about stating educational objectives in behavioral terms; emphasizing that behavioral objectives are intended to describe the products of learning so that they can be clearly understood, not to promote any particular theory of behavior. (DP)

The use of behavioral objectives appears to be aimed at teaching students the answers to questions; however, education is a great deal more than learning answers to prepackaged questions. (DF)