This report represents part of an investigation coordinated by a special Steering Committee working under the auspices of the National Council for the Social Studies. The purpose of Task 2 was to review independently the National Assessment of Educational Progress Social Studies and Citizenship exercises as to the extent to which confidence could…

A pilot project for individualizing elementary teacher education was developed based on the Model Elementary Teacher Education Project of the U. S. Office of Education. It provided individualized instruction in four context areas for 14 elementary education majors during half of the senior year. The context areas were: 1) clinical experiences in…

The question "Can a machine counsel" asks not if a machine can imitate the behavior of counselors, but rather if an identity of goals can be achieved between machine and counselor. If the goal of counseling is the discovering and internalizing of problem-solving processes, is it possible to create ".....a machine environment such than an…

Evaluation of instructional programs involves the process of ascertaining the decisions to be made. The decision maker, not the evaluator, determines the questions to be asked or the decisions to be made. A second task of evaluation deals with the specification of required information in light of system objectives. The task of the evaluator…

The document is a revision of earlier units, updated to include behavioral or performance objectives. Divided into 22 units of instruction, the course outline for distributive education presents suggested length of time for each part of a unit, prerequisites, a description of the part, objectives, sources, outline for the section, activities,…

To determine the effects of a permissive, nonpunitive learning climate on the affective and cognitive learning of black freshmen English students, 30 black freshmen English students were grouped heterogeneously in a writing laboroatory at Hampton Institute during the 1971-72 academic year. Three hypotheses were tested: (1) communication is a…

Four pairs of concepts important for the descriptions of the language or form of objective statements are described. The paper addresses itself to a set of questions concerning the relations between the form of educational objectives and the function which those objectives serve. The concept pairs considered are general-specific,…

Presented is the report on the development and 1-year implementation of a minimum objective system with the kindergarten through grade 6 classes at the Hinesburg Elementary School in Vermont. Discussed is the project's intention to determine minimum objectives to be met by all students at a given grade level in areas such as language arts and…

A study was made to examine the relationship between a student's acceptance of the instructional objectives of a course and the amount of his learning as measured by tests on the objectives. Participants were not randomly selected but were enrolled in a graduate level course required for teacher certification. At the beginning of the first class…

This study represents an attempt to present both sides of the behavioral objectives conflict in English and, after a discussion of the philosphical implications, to pose a suitable pedagogical compromise between the positions of the "behaviorists" and the "humanists." It is divided into three chapters: "Background…

Management by Objectives is a system which allows an organization to plan its course of action, assist individuals contributing to that course, and determine progress toward mutually accepted goals. The system allows every individual in the organization regardless of level and responsibility to know what is expected of him, where he may look for…

This work is one of a series of collections of objectives and measurement items from several subject areas based upon curricular material either submitted by teachers, schools, and school districts, or generated by the Instructional Objectives Exchange (IOX) staff. Contained in the junior high school English literature collection are sixteen…

This paper defines and develops the use of instructional objectives in economic education. Such teaching technique is hypothesized to improve economic understanding through improved learning efficiency and evaluation of learning achieved. Instructional objectives are defined and exemplified, both in general literature and specific practice. In…

This paper describes the process of translating curriculum theory into a school program for young children. It is an inquiry into the usefulness of a curriculum theory in the formulation of goals and the establishment of specific behavioral criteria to be used in their evaluation. Curriculum theory taken from Goodlad's conceptual model provided…

This creative photography quinmester curriculum guide was written to enable the student to use photography in a wide range of art forms. The student will gain an understanding of how photography is used in the fields of commercial and fine art. The introduction to photography as a unique art form includes a brief history of creative and…