This booklet describes a systematic procedure for determining learner needs in the form of a hierarchy of learner performance objectives. A determination is made of the effectiveness of educational programs currently being implemented to meet these needs and of how changes in the programs might more effectively meet learner needs by developing a…

The state's strategy for stimulating constructive change is to help clarify objectives, develop analysis techniques, and stimulate self-renewal. Each of these elements is considered in some detail. The problem of clarifying goals and objectives involves three contexts: the content, the level of specificity, and the individuals or groups to whom it…

The high rate of turnover of college presidents, the scarcity of willing replacements and haphazard recruitment methods are symptoms of a lack of clearly defined administrative needs--one of the most serious management problems in colleges and universities. Directionless institutions in this revolutionary era are likely to surrender to factional…

The values and goals of students from Harcum Junior College (Pennsylvania) a private, resident, all female college, were compared with students from Harrisburg Area Community College (Pennsylvania) a public, non-resident, co-ed college. The two groups of students were compared in terms of their parents' educational background, their educational…

Remedial reading, or the teaching of the ability to decode and comprehend, taxes the skills and ingenuity of the English teacher. This problem, however, must be tackled on a day-to-day basis. Remedial reading programs can be made effective by utilizing the following techniques: a daily 5-minute quiz which embraces previously covered material; a…

Written by an experienced teacher and addressed to beginning teachers, the paper concerns the problems and pleasures of teaching in the '70's from one teacher's point of view. The physical, emotional, spiritual or moral, and intellectual requirements for teaching are examined. Also explored are four broad objectives of the teaching-learning…

In planning new directions for teacher education it is reasonable to assume that education will become more rather than less important in the next decade, that technology will drastically alter our way of life, that there will be a continued trend toward urbanization, that teaching will become more individualized, and that teaching talent will be…

In this speech, a plea is made to return content to the social studies. Content is seen as essential to cognitive and affective learning. Although the author feels that the introduction of behavioral objectives is a significant development of the various social studies projects, it is meaningless unless it is related to content. Clearly stated…

To prevent the move to make schools more humane from developing into another educational fad, the author proposes an approach to curriculum design and evaluation that explicity relates the human condition to the necessary goals of teaching. To do this, he has prepared a grid in which the six elements of the human condition from developmental…

Historical and realistic bases account for hostility to the concept of evaluation on the part of nursery school teachers. The nursery school is primarily a middle-class institution and as such does not attempt to provide an intellectually stimulating environment, since that is already available at home. Other sources of opposition to evaluation…

This paper reviews the basis and organizational rationale for Foundations of Education courses. Instructional objectives for Foundations courses are included. The unity and effectiveness of Foundations fields are studied in light of the viability of integrated work and study in the Foundations. (MJM)

Regardless of what method of educational accountability one feels is best to strengthen our schools, it is likely to be fraught with difficulties. A particular problem of any accountability system seems to be the emphasis on measurement and evaluation with an ensuing loss of quality of teaching and learning. Literally, some accountability schemes…

As part of the Georgia Assessment Project (GAP), initiated in January 1969 to provide statewide measurement of the impact of educational programs, services, and resources on children and youth, 19 position papers were prepared by specialists to assist the Advisory Commission on Education Goals. The papers, some with critiques, concern Georgia's…

A college of education cannot, and should not, try to assume the total university responsibility for helping professionals and laymen understand what is going on in the important enterprise of education. The college can, however, be the antenna of the university in finding crucial problems and can encourage university scholars to collaborate in…

The volume purports to define the structure and substance of special educational provisions offered to California gifted children (in the upper 2% of general mental ability). Following a review of California's program of special education for the gifted, the nature of special education for the gifted is defined in terms of principles, needs, and…