The age of accountability in higher education is here, but there has been virtually no development in educational systems that has encompassed the task of producing a performance-based college campus. In order to accomplish the necessary goal of developing subsystems which together constitute a performance-based system, it is necessary that…

Public education needs the results orientation and performance accountability mandated by a management system. Schools need a management system around which to lay plans to solve problems and reach ever higher levels of accomplishment in serving the needs of students. Management by objectives provides the school administrator with such a…

The appendix to the report of the minimum objective system of the Hinesburg Elementary School (Vermont) includes objectives for science, physical education, music, and library skills, from the kindergarten through grade 6 levels. Most objectives are presented in the format of condition (or task), student behavior, and criteria. Also included are…

This third of six guidebooks on minimum course content for first-year algebra includes work with laws of exponents; multiplication, division, and factoring of polynomials; and fundamental operations with rational algebraic expressions. Course goals are stated, performance objectives listed, a course outline provided, testbook references specified…

This guidebook on minimum course content was designed for students who have mastered the skills and concepts of analytic geometry. It is a short course in the basic techniques of calculus recommended for the student who has need of these skills in other courses such as beginning physics, economics or statistics. The course does not intend to teach…

This is the first of six guidebooks on minimum course content for second-year albebra. A survey of the real and complex number systems, solving linear equations and inequalities in one variable, and operations with polynomials are covered in this booklet. Course goals are stated, a course outline is provided, performance objectives are specified,…

The third in a series of six guidebooks on minimum course content for second-year algebra, this booklet covers relations, functions, and solving and graphing linear equations, linear inequalities, systems of equations, and systems of inequalities. Overall course goals are specified, a course outline is provided, performance objectives are listed,…

Designed for the student who has competence in general mathematical skills and who has interest in solving practical problems, this guidebook on minimum course content seeks further development of computational and problem solving skills through the applications of trigonometry and base ten logarithms. Overall course goals are specified, a course…

This is the fifth of six guidebooks on minimum course content for first-year algebra; it includes operations with radicals, solutions of equations involving radicals or rational expressions, the distance formula, slope, and the slope-intercept form of the equation of a line. Course goals are stated, performance objectives listed, textbook…

This is the last of six guidebooks setting minimum course content for first-year algebra; it covers algebraic and graphic solutions to systems of equations, relations and functions, and variation. After course goals are stated and performance objectives listed, a course outline, textbook references, and teaching suggestions are given. Pretest and…

This is the second of two guidebooks on minimum course content for high school geometry, and is designed for the student who has mastered the skills and concepts of Geometry I and who had a final average of low B or less. Emphasis is on understanding and use of theorems without proof. This course develops definitions and properties of triangles,…

In the debate on instructional objectives, some argue for reducing all objectives to statements of student terminal behaviors, while others want open-minded objectives which allow for diverse, unpredictable outcomes. A synthesis of seemingly incompatible behavioral specification and open-endedness is proposed: (1) Behavioral objectives need not…

This handbook has been prepared for use by teacher educators involved in the process of developing instructional modules in competency-based teacher education programs. Two major concepts are dealt with: objectives and modules. Each of these is first treated as a separate subject and their relationships are discussed later. The handbook is divided…

Educational objectives were developed for an undergraduate electrical engineering curriculum. The courses studied were computer programming, electrical science, electrical networks, electronic engineering, and engineering communications. The courses were analyzed in terms of purpose, content, and objectives. Definitive problems for each course…

This document presents the report of the resource group in charge of an analysis of the goals of higher education in the development of a master plan for higher education in the state of Connecticut. Specific areas that the group addressed include: (1) governance; (2) need for new technical colleges, community colleges, and four-year colleges; (3)…