A questionnaire designed to determine community opinion of its schools is presented. The questionnaire contains five sections that relate to: number of years lived in the community; number of children in Beverly Hills District schools and grades in which enrolled; best sources of information concerning the schools; newspapers read regularly, and…

The achievement of development goals in education (as well as other fields) has not been particularly successful. Among the basic premises which implicitly define education and the association between education and development, the following three stand out as being particularly misguiding: (a) the view of education as a system, (b) the belief…

The purpose of the seminar was to find some answers to, and a deeper understanding of the following questions. (1) What is the purpose or are the purposes of higher education? (2) What are the benefits of higher education to the individual and to society? (3) Can the outputs of higher education be named and measured? (4) Where is higher education…

These behavioral objectives were developed for use at Fort Lincoln elementary school to be built in Washington, D.C. as part of the public school system. In many cases existing objectives were edited and adapted. Sources of these objectives include the Individualized Programed Instruction (IPI) reading and math curriculums developed at the…

This research was designed to obtain information on the validity and reliability of three new evaluation techniques: (1) The Simulated Patient Management Problem (PMP), a written simulation exercise; (2) The Simulated Diagnostic Interview (DI), an oral exercise; and (3) The Simulated Proposed Treatment Interview (PTI), another oral exercise. These…

Educational technology presents a challenge to educators. It makes possible the instruction of an individual in any course the educator deems necessary. In order to utilize these new opportunities effectively, the educators must decide what the goals are for a person in an automated society. The educator must deal less with the teaching of…

ERIC abstracts on performance objectives, announced in RIE through October 1970, are presented. The key terms used in compiling this collection are "educational objectives,""performance criteria," and "performance factors." The following information is presented for each document: author, title, place of publication, publisher, publication date,…

This represents the latest in a series of efforts, on-going since 1965, to up-date and revise a listing of continuously received literature which pertains to the Taxonomy. (TL)

The purpose of this paper is to develop the framework for a teaching methodology based on the concept of experience, especially as that concept has been defined by John Dewey. The discussion is divided into three parts and the first section provides a summation and analysis of behavioral objectives (the current methodology). It is stressed that…

Systems approaches, developed in World War II for military and business operations, have been applied increasingly to educational affairs. Educational systems analysis has received widespread usage in finance and accounting, and has also been successfully applied to information systems, instructional systems development, school design and…

Public schools in America, because they are obsessed with petty regulations and sterile mediocrity, destroy the natural inquisitive and creative spirits of children. A genuinely humane education must teach aesthetic and moral values as well as subject matter. This educational philosophy demands that learning be centered around the child's…

An Educational Resources Management System (ERMS) provides a model for adapting a planning-programing-budgeting system (PPBS) to decisionmaking in local educational districts. Initially, educators set the educational goals of their districts, from which programs are designed to produce outcomes compatible with the initial objectives. Evaluation,…

During the last 50 years, engineering education has reflected the strong influence of 2 trends: (1) an emphasis on unity of purpose and uniformity of standards and practices within the various branches, to provide the engineer with a basic technical knowledge that would enable him to practice in a variety of professions, and (2) a broadening of…

As attitudes of an organization's members are important in attaining its goals, this study proposed to determine faculty attitudes to comprehensive college aims. Selected as subjects were 100 full-time instructors from Missouri public junior colleges. The investigator expected to find transfer faculty more favorable to general and transfer…

This book analyzes the philosophical writings of several scientists: Henry Margenau, Philipp Frank, Percy Bridgman, J. H. Woodger, Morton Bechner, and the report of a symposium on the concepts of biology. A view of the nature of the physical and biological sciences is synthesized which incorporates both inductive and deductive elements.…