In redirecting educational efforts to respond to change, the counseling and guidance services are at the core. New roles for these areas must emerge as career education comes of age. The National Advisory Council on Vocational Education (NACVE) sees a need for counseling and guidance to set new goals and objectives. NACVE's sixth report,…

The author describes a counseling technique which: (1) is based upon behavior theory and treats acts and thoughts as operants, and anxiety as a respondent controlled by classical conditioning; (2) entails in vivo desensitization, requiring the construction of a hierarchy of anxiety-producing situations which can be enacted; (3) uses peer- or…

This report identifies the universal and continuing purposes that have been generally accepted as the goals of public education in the nation. The document contains reviews of historical educational developments, landmark studies, and recent reports on the educational goals of other States, in an effort to develop longrange objectives for Texas…

This collection contains 42 objectives with six related evaluation items for each objective. An effort was made to present these objectives at a level and in an organization easily adaptable to the elementary curriculum. The major goals of the collection are: 1) to present elementary students with a different way of looking at man and his…

This book of six self-instructional programs attempts to treat some of the central problems of the use of instructional objectives, especially the problem of reconciling objectives and a humanistic approach to teaching. The first program, humanizing educational objectives, suggests ways to involve students in writing objectives. Other topics…

The concept of an educational goal indicator (EGI) was devised as a measure of a post-educational condition or behavior that an educational system is supposed to produce or affect. In this sense it is intended to be a "true" measure of the schools' accomplishments. A search was made, as part of the New Jersey Needs Assessment program to…

School boards cannot account to the public unless they measure and assess the performance of school administrators and teachers. From the board's viewpoint, accountability (and therefore evaluation) must concentrate on the school superintendent. This evaluation must be carried out in an atmosphere of commitment and mutual trust, the procedures and…

This paper outlines a program of planned change designed to produce a more satisfying and meaningful set of skill objectives for undergraduate instruction in communication. As a philosophy of communication education, interpersonal competence is based on two key assumptions: (1) that every human being is motivated to interact effectively with his…

There are two sections to this document: (1) a concept catalog which provides a simple descriptor (a single word or phrase) and number code for each student error identified in the answer matrices for the study guide, pretest, and posttest; and (2) a list of measurable behavioral objectives which give detailed and specific statements of the…

The often conflicting roles of the foreign language teacher and the guidance counselor are explored in this paper. Teachers are advised to foster improved communication in the classroom and thereby help students improve communication skills. A list of commonly held attitudes of language teachers and guidance personnel toward each other are…

This paper describes the study which attempts to determine if civic education and political socialization topics are international in scope and, moreover, if instruments can be designed to measure cross-national effects of such education. An international committee first meeting in Hamburg, Germany, in 1966, decided to treat the subject…

The Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development is designing the employer based career education model. The model, now at the advanced design phase and soon to be pilot tested, reflects: (1) a comprehensive educational program, (2) the needs of youth, ages 13-18, (3) an educational system to be controlled by public and private…

This is the text of a colloquium of recent computer technology on psychometrics, particularly as practiced in the University of Washington's Bureau of Testing. Seven stages of career guidance are enumerated: (1) deciding what to measure; (2) developing the measures; (3) administering the measures; (4) scoring the measures; (5) weighting the scored…

A course in the basic principles of journalism is presented. The principles are studied as applied to writing columns, reviews, feature stories, human interest articles, fashion reporting, comics, personality interviews, and other types of entertaining writing for the newspaper. Course objectives include: (1) The student will identify feature…

A course to train students in proper handling of school accounts--contracts, bookkeeping, business letters, the significance of school audit--is presented. Selling advertising and developing ideas of a profit and/or publicity-oriented nature are also covered. Course objectives include the following: (1) The student will explain the purpose of a…