Identifies the major arguments pro and con Performance Based Teacher Education and recommends that PBTE be considered as a process rather than a program and that its potential strengths and weaknesses be measured that light. (Author/DB)

Examines what types of liberating understandings or competencies that political science, particularly the introductory courses, can give the general education student who will not major in the discipline. (Author/RK)

A discussion of the use of performance indicators to evaluate the effectiveness of higher education institutions argues that they cannot be used without clear institutional goals. Problems of deriving institutional goal systems, methodological problems associated with such indicators, and related research are addressed. (MSE)

Using National Longitudinal Survey data for 1966-68 and 1979, this study explores possible differences between Black and White, and male and female, youths' educational and occupational goals and determines whether these differences have changed. Not only were occupational and educational goals related, but sex and race differences do exist and…

Three models are described: an education model that focuses on educational objectives, teaching methods, and assessment; a social change model that considers the environment; and a problem-based model that focuses on the professional context and order of complexity of professional problems. (Author/MLW)

Reports the results of a study of the match between teacher-made tests and level of instructional objectives for 74 secondary social studies teachers. Concludes that: (1) only a slight majority of teachers think higher order objectives are important, and (2) that few translate this opinion into their instruction or testing. (JDH)

Suggests creative uses for noncredit activities; e.g., to cost-effectively offer professional development activities and to foster lifelong learning during college attendance. Underscores the importance of clearly stated goals in planning noncredit activities, offering of St. Clair College's Winter Workshop Week for human services professionals as…

To help students make sense of reality and perhaps improve it, schools must provide a liberal arts-oriented curriculum which builds up a subtle conceptual repertoire with regards to human relationships, the nature and purpose of society, life, and death. (RM)

The structure, policies, and objectives of the Scottish Community Education Council, formed in 1982, are described, and its committees (Finance and General Purposes Committee, Training Committee) and working groups (Communications Working Group, Employment, Education and Leisure Group, Youth Affairs Group) are detailed. (MH)

Goal selection and specification for a course on international relations are discussed by explicating related problems and issues, learning theories, and educational objectives. (ND)

The research of Hebert, with regard to the competencies that teachers of beginning typewriting should have, is translated into a format thought to be useful to the teacher educator. A list of performance goals and objectives that might be used in typewriting methods program is included. (Author/HD)

A study concerned with attitudes and achievement in a speech communication course is reported. Of three methods of instruction, the small class-individual instructor technique prompted more favorable student attitudes than did the 40- or 80-student lecture treatments. (Editor/LBH)

Recommends that a few behavioral objectives be included for skill development in many teacher education courses, but that behavioral objectives and competency-based teacher education be generally de-emphasized in favor of developing competent teachers. A framework for accomplishing educational improvement is presented. (Author/DB)

A brief contact procedure was found to be effective for counselors to use in encouraging students to assume responsibility and initiate action on the recommendations generated in counseling. Females reported initiating more actions than did males. Implications for future guidance procedures and further research are indicated. (Author)

Discusses the use of the taxonomy of educational objectives to analyze two lessons from Science - A Process Approach. Indicates that the material provides a considerable variety of cognitive behaviors on the part of students. (CC)