In a speech presented at the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) convention in New York in April, 1972, Dr. Hurd examines social problems and goals in the perspectives of scientific and technological influences. To achieve the objectives of acculturation, skill acquisition, and intellectual attitudes, he advocates that science be taught…

We must search for greater productivity in the teaching and learning process. During the past 15 years expenditures for elementary and secondary education have climbed from about four percent of GNP to eight percent. Much of this expenditure has been for educational technology, but we still don't know enough about how to use it. To help make…

During 1970-71, the Select Subcommittee on Education of the House Committee on Education and Labor held 8 days of hearings on the establishment of a National Institute of Education. This document is the first of three appendixes on the hearings and contains essays by scholars who have studied the aims of education, the issues of educational…

Public broadcasting and educational television are struggling to define themselves. Public broadcasting represents our common search for meaning through our efforts at forming and experiencing images. The brief declaration for "freedom" and "imagination" written by Congress into the public broadcast law forms a symbolic…

This guide to behavior modification provides teachers and others who work with children with some practical suggestions to reinforce productive classroom behavior. A description of common elementary classroom problems, the principles and ethical considerations in the use of behavior modification, suggestions for establishing a classroom climate…

This study investigated two functions that instructional objectives might fulfill in the learning situation: (1) organization and (2) orientation. One hypothesis was that instructional objectives can provide organization to learning materials. In this respect, objectives would provide little help when accompanying highly structured learning…

Author attempted to spell out the consequences of certain directions in contemporary ethical theory for the teaching of values--moral or otherwise--and to indicate a course of pedagogical action consistent with these consequences. (Author/RK)

A means to organize and evaluate purposes and performance of a school system. (Available from Educational Communication Center, P.O. Box 657, Camp Hill, PA 17011; $12.00 annually.) (Author)

The author suggests that schooling currently suffers from a confusion of aims and that this confusion might adversely affect test scores. He also suggests what might be done to improve the prognosis. (JY)

Suggests ways to determine what method of instruction is best suited to particular situations. (MLH)

Aware that what works in one school may not work at all in another, the writer describes how the system of goal-setting conferences worked for him and his teachers as a supervisory technique. (Editor)

Presents a list of the aims and objectives appropriate for instruction and assessment in a chemistry course at the N level. (GS)

Among the factors preventing effective curriculum management are that schools do not state their missions in specific terms or utilize their resources, and neglect systematic use of feedback. (Author/MLF)

The rationale for values education is reviewed and it is suggested that the language of values education does not belong in education. The authors state that teaching is an activity that takes aggressive and direct action on students' opinions and beliefs, not for the sake of their values, but for their characters. (LBH)