Social Studies Curriculum Guidelines, A Position Statement recently issued by the National Council for the Social Studies, is having a major impact throughout the country. Two educators draw on their years of experience to analyze this important document. (Editor)

Discusses various writings on behavioral objectives for teaching English and wonders why objectives such as concepts, generalizations, insights or understandings are omitted by today's behavioral objectivists. (RB)

Incremental guidance, as a method of assisting pupils in everyday decision making, is examined through a sequentially planned program that anticipates individual needs and provides aid through marginal changes. Comments by Robert Hoppock follow. (Author/CJ)

The "P.A.C. Game" provides a creative way for preservice teachers to develop their understanding of taxonomies of objectives in the psychomotor, affective, and cognitive domains. The game also helps give teachers feedback about students' progress. (PP)

Views difficulties in determining educational objectives for the 1980s with specificity and precision. A major problem is that educators must formulate objectives more carefully now that education is so strongly influenced by the management-by-objectives movement. Topics discussed include theories of educational objectives, the relationship of…

Guidelines developed by the Section on Anatomical Sciences of the American Association for Dental Schools are presented. These guidelines were drawn up as an effort to provide a general criterion-referenced standard against which a school can measure its course content in histology. (MLW)

The paper investigates a strategy for integrating the IEP (individualized educational plan) and J. Guilford's Structure-of-Intellect (SOI) in order to promote an accountability based approach to differentiated programing for the gifted classroom student. (Author/PHR)

Article examines why the universities have not accepted behavioral objectives. (HB)

Evaluation has two clear and distinct segments. Evaluation in cognition applies to the constant reevaluation of the internal processes of the organization. Evaluation is also a system of valuing those things with which the organization is primarily concerned. Therefore, the broad area of evaluation is both the self-evaluation of the processes of…

This report contains the findings, conclusions and recommendations that emerged from a study of "Functions and Goals of Oklahoma Higher Education." Many individuals and groups were involved in the process which culminated in this report, including a 600-member citizens' group, a special 140-member citizens' advisory committee, several…

The documents listed below are sets of instructional objectives for 39 courses taught at the junior college level. The specific objectives are typically arranged in terms of several major course goals. The major goals indicate what is generally to become of students taking the course by specifying actions to be taken, skills to be learned,…

American education reflects American society, and when society has difficulty in establishing clear objectives for itself, as it does now, education also has difficulty. Behavioral objectives and educational accountability are a result of public pressure and reflect a broad social movement originating in business, where the emphasis has…

This bibliography has three main sections: 1) "Books and Papers," containing 198 citations; 2) "Articles and Excerpts From Books," containing 148 citations; and 3) "Theses," with two citations. Sources consulted in preparing the bibliography include the British Education Index, the Canadian Education Index (CCRE), the…

These instructional objectives, written by Norman E. Rich, have been selected from materials used at Golden West College (California). These objectives are offered simply as samples that may be used where they correspond to the skills, abilities, and attitudes instructors want their students to acquire. These objectives may also serve as models…