Among the purposes of this study were: (1) to investigate, in a small number of institutions with differing characteristics, what on-campus and off-campus groups perceive the goals of their institutions to be, as well as what they believe their goals should be; (2) to evaluate whether the Delphi technique produces opinion convergence among…

These instructional objectives have been selected from materials submitted to the Curriculum Laboratory of the Graduate School of Education at UCLA. Arranged by major course goals, 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…

The range of teacher opinion concerning the worth of behavioral objectives for English is wide. The subject has provoked a great amount of heated discussion and has resulted in the resignation of at least one leading educational official. (CK)

Adults read a prose passage and responded to passages based on it which were either true or false and were phrased either affirmatively or negatively. True negatives yielded most errors, followed in order by false negatives, true affirmatives, and false affirmatives. (Author/RC)

This article outlines the goals and objectives of the National Society of Professional Engineers to ensure the application of engineering knowledge and skills in the public interest and to foster public understanding of engineering. (CS)

Included in this article are objectives of the Bureau and listing of numerous activities undertaken by the Bureau to attain each of them. Activities listed include mailings, meetings, proposal reviews, data collection, workshops, and information dissemination. (EB)

The text of the presidential address, presented at the forty-second national convention of the American Business Communication Association on December 29 1977, describes the association in terms of its membership, accomplishments, and objectives. (JMF)

Discusses what quality education is, identifying five major views about the purposes of schooling. (JMB)

Taking as his starting point the 1918 publication on "Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education: A Report of the Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education," the author provides his updated seven cardinal principles. (IRT)

A symbiotic relationship exists between educational technology and human values. Educational technologists should examine the values that control their professional activity. (Author/STS)

Specifying criteria is a complex problem comprising three phases: valuation, criterion identification, and prescription. Criteria are useful for making, and necessary for substantiating, value claims but to specify in advance a set of criteria upon which to judge is self-limiting. Complete prior specification is undesirable in principle. (MT)

Reports concerns raised by an informally constituted research caucus at the 1983 business meeting of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) in Atlanta. (RH)

Satirizes management by objectives through a funny description of a new system of management by spontaneity. (MD)

Our colleges and universities have three basic responsibilities--instruction, research, and public service. (Author)