Provides information, tips, references, and materials to high school and college level geography teachers on developing a unit on natural gas. Data are presented in the form of tables, maps, figures, and textual analysis. (Author/DB)

The article presents a number of case studies of high school faculty handbooks in order to ascertain broad areas of information and viewpoints expressed. Discusses approaches and emphases in preparing manuals, implications of alternative approaches, and the rationale of approaches to manual compilation. (Author/DB)

The primary and essential objectives of population education are listed and recommendations are made for developing an effective population education program. (JD)

The Multiattribute Utility Model combines subjective goal definition with objective data analysis. Goals are defined, ranked, and weighted. Subjective opinions about their attainment are assigned against decision alternatives considered by the school. Bayesian analysis of data enables revision of prior opinions about the realization of goals…

This paper examines several unrealistic assumptions regarding fundamental purposes and expectations for public education and offers recommendations related to priorities, scope, purposes, expectations and directions for our nation's public schools. (Author)

With burgeoning numbers of programs available for mid-life education, accurate descriptions of program objectives and rationale can help potential participants identify the programs that will meet their needs. (SK)

The author suggests that it is vitally important for the teacher of composition to have an articulated philosophy of rhetoric, that a philosophy and a teaching practice are so interrelated that one validates the other. (Author/KC)

The choice of a secondary reading program implies a goal or goals, and such goals are themselves derived from educational ideologies. The author identifies five ideologies and outlines their respective views on the purpose of reading, the definition of literacy, and the techniques and materials appropriate to a secondary reading program.…

Reviews a study designed to determine which topics students and parents believe should be included in an introductory psychology course on the college level. Parents and students believed that anxiety and punishment should receive major emphasis and that little importance should be attached to the history of psychology, perception and attention,…

Describes a college level history of psychology course designed to use art and music as a means of aiding students in recognizing the relationship between their present research and service interests and psychology's past. The course approached history in a less abstract fashion and stressed the interrelationship between the development of…

Recommends that an anchor test be used in college level psychology courses to regulate grading. An anchor test means a core of items on content which is common to all sections within a particular course. Items are distributed throughout the test and scored in comparison with how an individual class performs in relation to all other classes. (DB)

New nutrition curricula represent a total nutrition education program which includes a curriculum, statement of objectives, and a means for evaluating student achievement. Curriculum evaluation studies need to incorporate the best of evaluation research methodology. (JN)

The rational application of planning tools is discussed in relation to four decision-making settings. The requirements, advantages, and disadvantages of cost-effectiveness analysis are examined in terms of their appropriateness and applicability to vocational education planning. (SK)

Notes how laboratory experiences can help elementary school social studies pupils understand concepts such as cultural awareness, career education, advertising techniques, map and globe skills, music, transportation, and landforms. For each concept, information is presented on objectives, activities within a laboratory setting, and evaluation…

The Essentials of the Social Studies Statement summarizes various National Council of the Social Studies statements and positions concerning the goal of citizenship participation, knowledge, democratic beliefs, thinking skills, participation skills, and civic action. (Author/KC)