This document is a decision-making tool on the instructional process in Mississippi. It attempts to standardize curriculum content by identifying core skills that must be included in subject areas in kindergarten through grade 12. Subjects covered are reading, English/language arts, mathematics, art, computer education, foreign languages, health…

A convocation address at St. Lawrence University, New York, considers the purpose of the curriculum, expectations of the curricula, and the promise that it represents. It is suggested that the curriculum comprises a set of experiences, most of which are organized as courses, selected to facilitate a student's progress toward defined educational…

Israeli "external" high schools prepare students for external matriculation examination, providing them with a second chance to retain the matriculation certificate necessary for higher education. A study of the degree to which these schools fulfill second chance hopes is described, focusing on the problem of goal definition in…

This article reflects upon three issues of policy and purpose of vocational education: (1) providing equality of educational opportunity, (2) the goals of the field, and (3) interpreting the goals for postsecondary preparatory programs. Focus is on postsecondary programs. (CT)

A model illustrating the relationship between institutional goals, student goals, and the role of the academic advisor is presented. (Author)

It is a commonly held belief that student educational achievement is enhanced when students have goals. But individual goals may vary in terms of difficulty, as well as in terms of their importance and the commitment students make to achieve them. In this study, goal complexity was viewed as the influence of commitment, difficulty, and importance…

A sociological analysis of the concept of "role" is applied to adult students. The disparity between adult students and teachers' subjective expectations of them is examined. A framework for analyzing student role from social, personal, occupational, and institutional perspectives is presented. (Availability: Falmer Press, Falmer House, Barcombe,…

As higher education improves, it should not become so concerned with numbers that it forgets that employees of the 1990s, to which corporations look for their success, must do more than perform well on tests. Graduates should be creative, receptive, communicative, participating, cooperative, and flexible people who love learning. (MSE)

This paper defines key educational outcome terms, discusses national and international practices in the assessment of educational outcomes, describes activities of states in outcomes assessment, notes objectives of the National Center on Educational Outcomes, and delineates major considerations in the development of a comprehensive system of…

Examines whether a relationship exists between the number of students per computer in schools and traditional educational outcomes. Findings indicate that the allocation of class time and resources to educational computing is not associated with a loss in traditional outcome measures while the students are accumulating computer experience and…

This study is concerned with how tertiary students evaluate educational goals within their degree programs. Crooks' (1988) classification of educational practices in terms of short-term and medium-term consequences is used. This study assesses the viability of his classificatory system within a university student sample. The current study extends…

Author was concerned with clarifying the various and distinct implications which follow from the common and current uses of the growth metaphor in making claims about educational processes and programs. (Author/RK)

A look at research literature which contains conflicting studies about the value of giving instructional objectives to students. (Author/HB)

Reviews educational literature dating from 1912 to 1923 and summarizes the views expressed on the aims of elementary education. Reprint from March 1924 "Elementary School Journal." (JMB)

This article provided another brief account of one of the seventeen NAIS member schools founded in the United States before 1776. (Editor/RK)