Defining behavioral objectives as the operational statements of behavior which a student is expected to demonstrate at the end of a course, this paper examines the state of behavioral objectives in speech instruction, reviews theoretical positions and empirical evidence regarding the use of behavioral objectives in instruction, and reports on the…

The Semester Goals Project was initiated as a result of residence hall staff observations that although some students did very well academically, they were not fulfilling other developmental tasks common to college students. The project was initiated with the goal of having students determine the specific behavior goals for a given semester.…

The American Council on Education's Office of Research has instituted a large-scale data bank for research in American higher education. This cross-sectional and longitudinal data bank is available to the general community of scholars and administrators interested in student characteristics, student development, comparative institutional effects,…

Students are diverse; they desire involvement in governance, need guidance, react strongly to the impersonal, and bureaucratic life of the university, and want relevance and meaning in the learning program. Students also desire and need some personal relationships with the faculty and they need a faculty that cares. Students can be most…

A stratified sample of student personnel workers in four types of higher education institutions responded to the Institutional Goals Inventory. The results were analyzed in terms of student personnel workers' perceptions of present goals, preferred goals, and discrepancies between the two. The results revealed marked differences among types of…

This paper is a discussion of the emerging model of student development programming for the 1970's. After an historical sketch of Student Personnel Service, the affective domain of student development is detailed with regard to theory, instruction, counseling, and administration. (Author/DB)

CCEP's Pupil Role Interview study includes an interview content analysis. This analysis deals with questions involving the way children view their learning environment, the aspects that are most prominent in the child's eye, and the match between the child's real and ideal learning environment. The content analysis revealed that: (1) program…

This study is a 5-year longitudinal project that commenced in the fall of 1970 and is scheduled to be consummated in the winter of 1975. The research is being conducted on the campuses of five traditionally black colleges who are experiencing a racial shift in their student population. The primary objective of this project is to improve the…

In a description of two kinds of undergraduate courses involving development groups, the author differentiates between one course format that alternates a lecture-laboratory approach and one that makes no distinction between lecture and laboratory components. Both categories, cover a variety of cognitive material such as personality theory,…

This report examines the performance of students in the Modular Achievement Program (MAP) at Bowling Green State University using the Undergraduate Record Examinations (URE) as the primary criterion. The performances of students in MAP on the URE is delineated and compared to the performance of freshman and sophomore norm groups at Bowling Green…

Two distinct anxiety factors, labeled trait anxiety and state anxiety, were identified. The trait anxiety factor was interpreted as measuring stable individual differences while the state anxiety factor defined a transitory state of the organism that varied over time. A trait-state conception of anxiety was then proposed that specified the…

This paper presents statistical information on the degree of consistency shown by second- and third-grade teachers in producing student gains in the Metropolitan Achievement Test (MAT) scores. Data are presented separately for each grade and for 15 Title 1 versus 35 non-Title 1 schools. Included are correlations within each school year showing…

Third-year activities of a career education project in a three-county, non-urban area of Missouri are evaluated. The report describes the use of the Career Maturity Inventory (administered to a random sample of ninth and twelfth grade participants) and the Self-Observation Scale (administered to a sample of sixth grade participants and…

A rationale for understanding the importance of the self-concept and how schools work toward its retardation is presented. Illustrations and suggestions for improving this situation are provided. (Editor)

Based on the premise that therapy is a way of learning, two Field Centers were developed: (1) a small group in New Mexico who studied geology, botany, wilderness survival skills and themselves, the latter using group dream study methods and (2) a group in Switzerland to study Jungian psychology including individual analysis. (JT)