This booklet gives the rationale and objectives of the Science: Grades K-6 course developed by the North Carolina Public Schools. It is designed to give an outline for introducing the program to principals and teachers. A set of transparencies is available for use with it. The program suggested closely follows the conceptual schemes developed by…

With the increase of federal funds for education, a new professional is emerging--the "evaluator"--whose role needs to be more clearly defined. He must not, first of all, take an absolutist position in his relationship to other educational experts or he will fail to get the cooperation of teachers and the support of powerful community groups.…

Statements of learning objectives are provided to substantiate the goal of economic understanding in Wisconsin schools and to provide a quick inquiry device that educators and others may use to more clearly establish whether or not opportunity for economic education exists sufficiently in the school curriculum. These statements, or…

Two hypotheses guided these studies: (1) administrators with a greater risk propensity will develop more innovative job targets in a management-by-objectives program than will those with less risk propensity, and (2) educators' risk propensity will increase after group discussion. The Choice Dilemmas measure, content analysis of goal statements,…

This teacher appraisal program, developed by the Hyde Park School District, is based on the following objectives: (a) clarifying performance expectations of the individual; (b) establishing short- and long-term job targets to bring about learner, professional, or program improvement; (c) improving the relationship between the appraisee and…

This document introduces a study conducted by the National Council of Social Studies (NCSS) to review, interpret, and disseminate findings of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) assessments in citizenship and social studies. The study represents an investigation funded by the Education Commission of the States and coordinated by…

The Student Centered Learning System (SCLS) was developed by Quincy, Massachusetts educators to identify, develop, and implement a learner-responsive education system. The SCLS has 10 components. The first states the goals of the Quincy public schools as helping students to become competent as self-fulfilling individuals, citizens, and workers in…

The main topic of this paper is how the behavioral approach to counseling fulfills the requirements of an effective helping relationship. The role of the counselor is first considered, should the counselor exert influence over clients? In any interpersonal relationship, people influence and control one another, counseling relationships are no…

This instructional module has three main goals: (1) to establish the need and functionality of behaviorally stated objectives, (2) to establish a common functional language by which to describe behavior, and (3) to generate ability to construct specific descriptions of the expected student performance. An underlying purpose of this module is to…

Throughout their history, the private liberal arts colleges have been able to adapt to changing conditions while maintaining their identity mainly because the colleges collectively have represented a humanistic tradition deeply ingrained in American educational thought. The current reshaping of the structure of US higher education is, however,…

The handbook, part of the "Career Survival Skills Kit" (described in CE 001 445), explains that the kit is designed to help upper elementary and junior and senior high school students understand and use resources for life and career planning. Basic to the kit's approach to career development are behavioral objectives. They provide a…

The Counselor Education Department at the University of Houston has developed an affective training program for counselor education at the graduate level. The goals of increasing self exploration and interpersonal effectiveness are achieved through the following experiences: a retreat, psychological assessment, modular learning and videotape…

This paper describes the Self-Based Competency-Based introductory program in learning disabilities at Arizona State University that is designed to help students develop the basic competencies needed to know and understand why learning disabled children fail to learn. The 391 objectives included in this program were selected to provide students…

This study compared student benefits (learning and rate of forgetting) derived from teachers being informed of the behavioral objectives and learning hierarchy of a seventh grade mathematical unit with the student benefits derived from teachers being informed of the instructional objectives of the unit in non-behavioral terms. Twenty-one seventh…

GRADES OR AGES: Primary, intermediate, junior high, high school. SUBJECT MATTER: Health education (including nutrition, safety education, and consumer education). ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: Nine terminal goals are listed on page one. The guide consists of a breakdown of each terminal goal into program goals and, for each program goal,…