This booklet is for use by administrators, project directors, and teachers who need information on how to determine if a planned instructional program is actually implemented. A format for mounting an instructional program through the use of performance objectives is described, with details of how variables such as organization, content, method,…

This paper, outlining the present goals, purposes and future role of the Illinois Association for the Education of Young Children (ILLAEYC), discusses what is involved in providing high quality programs for young children everywhere, not only in Illinois. Among ILLAEYC's objectives: (1) to provide a channel of information for people working with…

This newsletter focuses on brief descriptions of current projects which are directed toward meeting the stated goals of the Center for Education in the Social Sciences, University of Colorado (CESSUC). These activities include: Urban Problems Course, Summer Resource Personnel Workshop, Protocol Materials Development Project, Academic Year…

Trinity University and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) share many of the same ground rules; tolerance for diversity, willingness to change, and a guaranteed opportunity for competition in the marketplace of goods, services, and ideas. But a Presidential commission hanging on an office wall is not a hunting license to shape the…

Authors saw the role of Colleges of Education as one in which accountability programs must be developed. They defined the difference between goal statements, broad and all encompassing, and performance objectives, specific and treatment directed. As well, they outlined the components of an accountability program. (Author/RK)

Assessed the impact of a death and dying course. Results showed no significant pre-test/post-test differences for the experimental or the control group, but indicated initial differences between the two groups, suggesting that students enrolling in a death and dying course have more favorable attitudes toward both suicide and abortion. (Author)

Discusses the history of zero-base budgeting, its application in business, and both the positive and negative aspects of its application in education. (PKP)

Attempts to define and justify the nature and value of history are likely to do violence to its most distinctive values. (Author)

Last year the superintendent of the Woodford county schools shared the district's goal-setting process with readers; this year a report on the district's accomplishments is presented. (IRT)

Outlines a conceptual framework that allows description of the interaction of the administrator with an organization by considering organizations and individuals to be dynamic. (Author/IRT)

The author answers general questions on the meaning and function of leisure counseling, as might be posed by students, professionals, and researchers. (MJB)

Attempts to delineate and define more clearly what is meant by "begin instructional design by stating your objectives" and suggests that a lack of discrimination among three major sets of objectives has led to trivial, over-exclusive, or unmanageably large sets of terminal behaviors. (Author)

Two experiments using two versions of the missionary and cannibal problem investigated the conditions under which the specification of a subgoal would facilitate problem solving. Specification of a subgoal in the smaller problem space improved performance only in reaching the subgoal when it was not too distant from the initial state. (Author/DEP)

The goal setting and needs assessment process described, by involving a cross-section of the community and the schools and by developing consensus on important goals, has helped focus planning and implementation for a performance-based curriculum. (Author/IRT)

This paper investigates the meaning of ideology, looks at the view that education is always ideological and political, deals with how ideology affects thinking, and discusses the relationship between ideology and rationality. (MT)