Explains some of the applications, hazards, limitations, and possibilities of confluent education, the educational approach which seeks to merge the cognitive and the affective into a whole and to educate, as well as train, the whole person. (Author/PR)

The column focuses on practical procedures that counselors have found effective in their work. (Author)

Describes a practical approach to occupational curriculum development with a high priority assigned to the writing of educational objectives. (GR)

Utilizing the Structure-Process System, which considers education as metascience, knowledge-seeking (epistemic) behavior is proposed as the fundamental motivational explanation for behavior. (Author)

Concludes that achievement can be enhanced through provision of precise instructional objectives. Presented at American School Health Association, Philadelphia 1969. (Author)

A discussion of why educators are not using measurable instructional objectives in spite of widespread acceptance of such goals as potentially useful instructional assets. (AA)

Classification is the taxonomic science in which a system of categories is established and in which the categories have some logical structure. Scientific classifications have included those by Aristotle, Linnaeus, and Lavoisier. Educational taxonomies include those developed by Bloom, Herbart, Dewey, and Piaget. The problems of taxonomy…

Gives specific recommendations for the effective use of behavioral objectives in planning, designing, delivering, and evaluating training. (SK)

Lists the ways in which those against planning and change impede progress and productivity. (Author/JM)