An emotional or affective dimension (artistic) in which students' feelings are positively engaged in the learning process is missing from much of the traditional curriculum. (JD)

To illustrate the importance of clarity and precision in stating objectives for learning a particular job task, a training consultant provides answers to the previous issue's questionnaire on writing instructional objectives. (MF)

Past, present, and future trends concerning behavioral objectives. Topics include: the nature and roles of objectives, conceptual objectives for domain-referenced education, and objectives for instructional and evaluation design. (DAG)

Contends that aims and goals of many language courses lack the precision needed for effective teaching and evaluation and that there is a need to write precise statements of objectives in terms of pupils' learning rather than in terms of teachers' activities. Suggests how to write learning objectives. (SED)

The author provides a description of industrial training for 1974 in terms of training techniques, course development, and facilities for training. That description is presented in terms of a letter written in 1974, placed in a time capsule, and reviewed in the year 2024. (KP)

The case for using one's schooling successfully in nonschool life may have to be made not on the endurance of memory, but rather on selective forgetting. (Author)

Purposes of student personnel work should be stated in specific behavioral goals for students, arrived at through staff and student interaction. Without specific direction student personnel work will continue to lumber along, an anachronistic appendage in higher education, until some educational crisis forces its whimpering demise. (Author)

Discusses the role of laboratory work in biology and suggests reasons (mostly related to the preparation of teachers) for the continuing emphasis on confirmatory laboratory exercises rather than student directed investigations. Gives examples of process and affective objectives, and practical suggestions for using behavioral objectives to guide…

Discusses origins of action planning and action plans and possible influence of different antecedents on practice. Analysis indicates a lack of clarity concerning the origins of the process. Influence of contrasting models appear to remain unrecognized, and training needs of helpers, particularly for guidance skills, are underestimated. (FC)

A thorough review of the research relating to Human-Computer Interface (HCI) form and content factors in the education, communication and computer science disciplines reveals strong associations of meaningful perceptual "illusions" with enhanced learning and satisfaction in the evolving classroom. Specifically, associations emerge…

In response to the contrast between the instructional focus of the classroom practice and the actual communicative requirements of campus setting, this paper points out the constructive suggestions for the cultivation of culture awareness in college English education.