"A Report of the Commission on Reorganization of Secondary Education" (C.R.S.E.), otherwise known as the Cardinal Principles Report, is examined in this document. Emphasis is placed on the historical origins, social and educational context, philosophical foundations, curricular implications, and evaluation of the C.R.S.E. The appendix…

The meaning of objectives in geographic education and the need to structure objectives in some hierarchical manner are presented in this paper. Discussion in past years centered on the teaching of general objectives in geography classes. During the last twenty years, however, geography instructors realized that objectives may be at various levels…

Results from an evaluation study of a new masters' program in social work are described. The paper focuses upon the interaction between program goals that are conceived in terms of (1) the need to train social work students in three methods of social work, and (2) the need to prepare students who could address the problems of disorganized urban…

The assessment of educational needs attempts to: (1) identify problems and needs related to the education of American Indians; (2) establish priorities for meeting these needs and solving problems; (3) provide program descriptions to assist individuals and organizations to plan and implement programs to meet priorities; and (4) identify potential…

Procedures for establishing school goals and objectives, after having completed the needs assessment, are discussed. A distinction is drawn between goals and objectives in that goals are general future targets, whereas learner outcome objectives are behavioral statements of all or some aspect of goal statement. Five steps in setting goals and…

Procedures for program development, to take place after needs assessment and the establishment of learner goals and objectives, are described. Three phases are involved in program development: (1) program alternatives are explored; (2) the resources necessary to implement a program are compared to the existing school resources; and (3) process…

Basic assumptions of this paper are that psychology should be and will be taught in American high schools. Two basic arguments for teaching pre-college psychology are to teach students the scientific method and to familiarize students about ways in which human beings develop and behave, in the long run upgrading human potential. Rather than a…

How do the various ideas currently used in conceptualizing and modeling evaluation relate to the administrator? How can he best use them in guiding his institution in evaluation? This paper summarizes some of the major trends of thought related to evaluation and explores them from an administrative rather than from a research or instructional…

The Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education in California had the desire to include all the state's colleges and universities in a cooperative project to define goals for higher education in California utilizing the newly developed Institutional Goals Inventory (IGI). The objectives of the undertaking were fourfold: (1) to gather…

This paper comments on some of the possible uses and values of the Institutional Goals Inventory (IGI), an instrument by which a college community can delineate institutional goals and establish priorities among them. In the practical sense, the establishment of institutional goals is an essential element in any kind of systematic institutional…

This report is a response to the request that the 10 established universities in Ontario undertake to support the 4 emerging universities as full members of the university community. The major role of these 4 new universities is to provide general undergraduate programs on a level of quality comparable to that of established universities in…

In this paper, the author traces the phases in the historical development of the functions of the principalship in Canada -- from administration by imitation and innovation to the administrator as planner. The author emphasizes the planning function of the principalship and suggests that by delegating more responsibility to staffs and teachers,…

This document presents long-range goals for teacher education programs and charts representing the implementation of these goals. The charts are divided into three sections: Long-Range Goals (Examples), Teacher Behavior (Examples), and Preservice Tasks (Examples). (MJM)

Variable Modular Scheduling Via Computer, a scheduling program which focuses on allocating a school's resources according to the school's overall purposes, is designed to allow schools to adapt organizational patterns to whatever teaching and learning patterns they define as necessary in meeting their educational goals. The system's rationale,…

This speech describes some of the experiences encountered by an auditor during the audit process and the reactions of LEA and project personnel to the audit. The presentation focuses on the audit methods as viewed by an educational researcher. The discussion also attempts to point out some alternatives to the audit process and the problem areas…