Explores the pitfalls inherent in the technology of management by objectives. (Author/RA)

Address presented at the 1969 Seminar in Albuquerque, New Mexico of the Association of Departments of English (ADE), an affiliate of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA). (DS)

The amount of variance in the relationship between measures of educational and vocational interests leads to a quandary about how to counsel students. Counselors should be aware that interest scores provide clients with only one source of information necessary for the decision process. (Author)

Since the process of health education can be termed guidance," wherein a professional guides client behavior using an academically based framework, it is imperative that improved training for health counseling be accomplished by interdisciplinary cooperation of relevant professionals. (Author/CJ)

Originally presented as a speech at the Annual Meeting of the Commission on Curriculum of the National Council of Teachers of English, November 25, 1969, in Washington, D.C. (DS)

Suggests that in order to evaluate the effectiveness of instructional procedures for the production of students who can both critically analyze and produce ideas, science teachers need to re-examine their measurement procedures in the light of the "new science curricular goals. Examples of test items that fit the "new curricular philosophy and…

The author argues that curriculum design requires viewing the whole fabric of management training in its totality; individual training programs are created from this perspective. The challenge in this case is to build a coherent plan that will provide structure and unity to the whole management training program. (Author/SSH)

Argues for a student assessment based on the goals of the course. In this way, the assessment is democratic, resulting from a very clear understanding on everyone's part of what has to be done to obtain a satisfactory assessment. (HOD)

The effective administrator varies leadership styles in positive ways to gain staff members' support for organizational goals. (Author/JM)

According to the strategic management approach, the curriculum of a school system is a strategic statement of the system that determines how it selects activities, organizes its resources, and determines how well the system has performed its function within the overall policies it was constructed to implement. (Author/JM)

Argues that effective English instruction cannot be measured with quantifiable scales nor in terms of behavioral objectives, but rather must be measured in terms of students' ability to adapt, decide wisely, and function within society. (AYC)