This is a teaching guide to a high school text on engineering and technology principles for the general student. Behavioral objectives, suggestions for class presentation, field trips, exercises, and supplemental problems and activities are provided for each of the text chapters. (Textual material is contained in the student book, in case study…

This file contains research studies, conference papers, and other documents on behavioral objectives. By using this information, instructional personnel may be able to provide more precise guidance in identifying, analyzing, constructing and using behavioral objectives. (CK)

This document is one part of a critique series that deals with the development and evaluation of course goals in six subject matter areas for grades K-12. The series provides an initial pool of course-level goals that are expected to be of considerable value in assisting educators with goal definition related to curriculum planning and…

Behavioral objectives for geometry, algebra, computer mathematics, trigonometry, analytic geometry, calculus, and probability are specified for grades 10 through 12. General objectives are stated for major areas under each topic and are followed by a list of specific objectives for that area. This work was prepared under an ESEA Title III…

This statement of educational objectives was produced during the 1972-73 school year by the cooperative efforts of the teaching staff of the Hanover School System, Hanover, Massachusetts. The objectives were formulated by teachers working as a total group and in 13 committees: Health, Business, Music, Vocational Education, Reading, Mathematics,…

This report, written by a task force of specialists in elementary art education, focuses on potentials and problems confronting art educators as they identify their roles and directions in elementary schools. Emphasis is upon involvement on the part of teachers, administrators, and community cultural resources in developing an effective art…

This study reports the results of a project testing the extent to which a systematic analysis of objectives, procedures, and evaluation can benefit literature teaching in the Swedish Comprehensive School (the compulsory nine-year school for pupils between seven and sixteen years of age). Following earlier reports on goal document and requirement…

Behavioral objectives are defined accepting Mager's definition, research dealing with them is reviewed and synthesized, and recommendations for further research are made. Each section is divided into four categories: (1) educational significance of behavioral objectives, (2) evaluation through behavioral objectives, (3) student awareness of and…

Attention is focused in this rather advanced discussion on human goals and human style in the face of present and anticipated future developments in the computer-based technologies as related to English education. The paper admittedly is not objective. The implications of two hypotheses are discussed: that learning systems are not necessarily a…

A course presenting the fundamentals of music through ear training, analysis, reading and writing music is given. Objectives include: ear training, reading and analysis, and writing. Course content includes: (1) Review of previous levels if need exists to facilitate placement and determine strengths and weaknesses, (2) Development of aural…

The authors describe the development of a curriculum evaluation scheme: the history, literature search, categorization scheme, development of objectives, technical problems, and the future of the model. A sample of the category scheme is included, as well as some performance objectives, definitions of operational verbs used in the objectives, and…

AN INSTRUMENT WAS DEVELOPED THAT COULD BE USED FOR ESTABLISHING THE CORE OF PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGES AND ABILITIES REQUIRED IN TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR VOCATIONAL TEACHERS IN FIVE AREAS. THE DISCIPLINES REPRESENTED IN THE PROCESS OF IDENTIFICATION INCLUDED (1) TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION, (2) BUSINESS EDUCATION, (3) HOME ECONOMICS EDUCATION, (4)…

This booklet is one of five related publications that delineate the program developed by the District of Columbia Public Schools for fulfilling the district's educational mission. The heart of this effort is the design and implementation of a districtwide competency-based curriculum for the prekindergarten level through grade 12, plus the…

Broken down into components of: affective domain - Indian values; cognitive domain - Indian knowledges; cognitive domain - non-Indian knowledges; and vocational goals - non-Indian skills; bicognitive education seeks to help the American Indian child think and react effectively within two worlds. (JC)

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of different instructional strategies upon the attitudes and cognitive achievement of nursing students. The major conclusions were: (a) fewer students were manifesting philosophies supportive of independent study strategies, and (b) significant interaction between students' attitudes,…