Crucial to curriculum development and change is the assessment of cognitive objective achievement and the identification of cognitive needs. Validation of instrumentation to evaluate the attainment of cognitive behavioral objectives was an essential first step in a state-wide educational needs assessment study conducted by the investigators. A…

The author argues that when behavioral objectives are properly used they can provide direction for learning, and that they need not be restrictive. (SD)

Presents objectives of an ideal social studies program in these areas--knowledge, abilities, valuing, and social participation. Also offers guidelines to help teachers set standards for social studies programs. (DB)

The authors report on the stage of a project (tertiary education in applied mathematics, TEAM) aimed at investigating first-year students' expectations and preferences and lecturers' aims in relation to first-year undergraduate mathematics courses. (Author/MN)

Presents a chronological history of selected objectives for teaching biology in the high school of the United States during the period of 1918-1972. Analyses show (1) knowledge; (2) process; and (3) attitude and interest as the most important categories of objectives for secondary school biology teaching. (HM)

Provides basic guidelines which school officials and school boards may find helpful in negotiating, establishing, and managing objectives. Discusses characteristics of good objectives, specific and directional objectives, multiple objectives, participation in setting objectives, feedback on goal process and achievement, and managing a school…

Discusses the drawbacks of specific behavioral objectives in teaching and argues for more general planning. The dimensions that make up instructional objectives are described and specific and general objectives are contrasted. Positive aspects of general objectives are listed. (SB)

Described is a taxonomy for determining the quality and extent of learning activity going on in a classroom at a given time. Research findings indicate that teachers should always stay within the frame of reference of pupils and encourage them to reflect at a deeper level on what they already know. (Author/DB)

A call for educators and employers to collaborate to produce young people who understand the "system" and will contribute to it through their work. (Author)

This article illustrates ways in which the schools are dehumanizing and suggests ways in which education can be humanized. (DN)

Includes sample objectives for teaching poetry and written composition. (RD)

Discusses advantages to learning of stating objectives behaviorally, feeling that it is more important to know ways of discovering information rather than merely the information itself. (Author/CJ)

The author argues that accumulation of knowledge should be the primary aim of social studies teaching and that the formation of attitudes and the clarification of values should be considered incidental to that, for attitudes and values not based on considerable knowledge are idle. (Author/SJL)

This module is one of a series of 127 performance-based teacher education (PBTE) learning packages focusing upon specific professional competencies of vocational teachers. The competencies upon which these modules are based were identified and verified through research as being important to successful vocational teaching at both the secondary and…