Describes a practical approach to occupational curriculum development with a high priority assigned to the writing of educational objectives. (GR)

Utilizing the Structure-Process System, which considers education as metascience, knowledge-seeking (epistemic) behavior is proposed as the fundamental motivational explanation for behavior. (Author)

Concludes that achievement can be enhanced through provision of precise instructional objectives. Presented at American School Health Association, Philadelphia 1969. (Author)

A discussion of why educators are not using measurable instructional objectives in spite of widespread acceptance of such goals as potentially useful instructional assets. (AA)

Classification is the taxonomic science in which a system of categories is established and in which the categories have some logical structure. Scientific classifications have included those by Aristotle, Linnaeus, and Lavoisier. Educational taxonomies include those developed by Bloom, Herbart, Dewey, and Piaget. The problems of taxonomy…

Gives specific recommendations for the effective use of behavioral objectives in planning, designing, delivering, and evaluating training. (SK)

Lists the ways in which those against planning and change impede progress and productivity. (Author/JM)

Procedures for devising objectives for gifted and talented students are examined based on analysis of learners' characteristics and environmental factors. Behavioral, expressive, and emergent objectives are discussed and the role of expressive and emergent objectives as complements to specific objectives is explained. (CL)

A health profile/validation learning exercise is designed to create a balance between cognitive and affective learning by promoting health information through student involvement. The profile identifies health knowledge strengths and weaknesses for each student and involves them in the validation process. (JMF)