This report provides concerned citizens and educators with information about the attainment of educational objectives in the United States. In light of science objectives, exercises assessing knowledge, skills, and other educational achievements were administered to randomly selected 9, 13, and 17-year-olds, and young adults (26 to 35). This…

Two papers selected from those presented at the Special Conference on Instructional Technology (San Antonio, Texas, December 1-4, 1970) consider the improvement of special education through instructional technology. The papers examine educational technology as a program objective of the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped (Edwin Martin), and…

To examine the relationship between a teacher's critical thinking ability and his classroom verbal behavior and perception of teaching purposes, 39 teachers first completed the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal. The 10 highest and 10 lowest scorers were then observed and videotaped in their classrooms during three one-half hour periods,…

This report contains the findings, conclusions and recommendations that emerged from a study of "Functions and Goals of Oklahoma Higher Education." Many individuals and groups were involved in the process which culminated in this report, including a 600-member citizens' group, a special 140-member citizens' advisory committee, several…

This paper is divided into two parts: (1) the drug abuse education activities being carried out by the various agencies that take responsibility in this area, and (2) an analysis of various kinds of efforts made in drug abuse education today and the resulting product. The definition of drug abuse education used by the author contains the following…

This work describes how, over three centuries, colleges have been expected to assume responsibility for the care and socialization of the young while "...the task had grown all the more difficult because a prosperous society, immersed in sensation, easily swept by currents of irrationality, deeply puzzled by questions of national purpose, and…

American education reflects American society, and when society has difficulty in establishing clear objectives for itself, as it does now, education also has difficulty. Behavioral objectives and educational accountability are a result of public pressure and reflect a broad social movement originating in business, where the emphasis has…

A discussion of the academic mission and collective bargaining suggests that some form of collective bargaining seems historically inescapable. Yet collective bargaining must be tempered with rational collegiality so that the form of collective bargaining must be one which will least affect the achievement of academic mission. (Author/MJM)

More than 960 titles of bibliographies, texts, research reports, journal articles, theses and dissertations, conference presentations, and proceedings, monographs, programed instruction, instructional packages and multimedia kits appear in this bibliography. The major portion of these entries were either published or became available between 1965…

This booklet presents guidelines and procedures to facilitate the development and writing of performance objectives at different levels of specificity. Chapter 1 contains a brief review of performance objectives. Chapter 2 reviews behavioral variables under the three headings of cognitive variables, affective variables, and psychomotor variables.…

The taxonomy adopted for use with projects operating under the auspices of the Florida Educational Research and Development Program embodies five primary categories: motor skills, verbal information, intellectual skills, cognitive strategies, and attitudes. Performance objectives are classified in terms of the learning process required for the…

After an introductory section describing the rationale behind the adoption of comprehensive educational objectives for public education, the objectives are set out in two parts. Part One, dealing with goals for student development, includes 1) communication and learning skills, 2) citizenship education, 3) occupational interests, 4) mental and…

These guidelines, which set standards for social studies programs K-12, can be used to update existing programs or may serve as a baseline for further innovation. The first section, "A Basic Rationale for Social Studies Education," identifies the theoretical assumptions basic to the guidelines as knowledge, thinking, valuing, social participation,…

The author makes several prefatory observations on the hodgepodge nature of current social studies programs, and the lack of a functional (as opposed to descriptive) statement of the means and ends of social studies education. The following functional definition, developed by the staff of the Marin Social Studies Project, is offered: The social…

Comparatively little is known about the sheer scale and diversity of the task facing adult educators in developing countries. This book, written by a number of distinguished adult education specialists with first-hand experience of the countries they describe, is designed to help fill the gap in knowledge. Detailed studies of the structure,…