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,…

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…

This booklet explores some of the issues concerning five major problems regarding educational accountability. These are problems of skills and behavioral objectives, intelligence and holistic behavior, the nature of learning and the causes of behavior, humanistic goals of education, and professional accountability. General comments about methods…

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)

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)

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)

Briefly analyzes and critiques "The Taxonomy of Educational Objectives" by Benjamin Bloom and others from the perspective of the values and epistemological presuppositions of the critical thinking movement. Suggests that the hierarchical organization of the taxonomy fosters mistaken assumptions about cognitive processes and may hamper…

This book provides an introduction to the use of simulations to create an environment within which students can apply theory and practice skills in real-world issues related to their discipline. The simulations described range from simple scenarios for a single class period to complex simulations that may be a semesters work. The chapters are: (1)…

Specific subgoals and objectives need to be identified for elementary school creative drama programs to assist planners in making decisions about accountability in such programs. (CS)

Author's objective was to try and have his students remember the slides they had seen of the sculpture of Michaelangelo, Rodin and Henry Moore, as well as to have a joyful and creative art experience. (Author/RK)

Illustrates how proper use of the dictionary is related to the overall objectives of language programs in England. (RL)

Tyler identifies major hangups in the behavioral objectives movement. For example, he states that an educational objective does not need to be specific in order to be clear, attainable, and capable of assessment.'' (Author)

This article proposes teacher accountability with the concept of supervision by objectives: the supervisor and teacher agree in advance what evidence will be acceptable to determine the degree of teacher success. (JA)