Focuses on the methods of establishing and maintaining content validity of criterion-referenced multiple-choice tests through refined item writing techniques. (Author)

Industrial arts' unique role is to teach students to think and to act, augmented by tools, machines, materials, processes, energy, and communications, to meet their present and future needs and to extend their potential. (Author/SK)

Faculty committees wrote educational objectives for all 23 courses in their undergraduate medical school curriculum. The objectives were used for evaluation of curriculum, student knowledge, and attitudes. (CP)

Introduces an experimental educational psychology component developed at the University of California, Berkeley, to provide teaching credential candidates with a useful, practical, and ordered educational psychology course. The course was designed to emphasize acquisition of knowledge, application of this knowledge to the classroom, and synthesis…

Objectives are defined in a manner that eliminates many of their attributes that have been criticized as being harmful or unappealing. Examples of objectives appropriate for secondary school mathematics are given and the relationship between classroom processes and objectives is discussed. (MK)

Discusses a study to compare the performances of different item analysis procedures by using five scales covering intellectual and attitudinal domains. Results are presented. (Author/DB)

This outline for a high school yearbook course provides a course description and lists student responsibilities, behavioral objectives for each of nine areas, and resource materials. (GT)

Presents a discussion justifying science education in the current era of vocationalism. (SL)

Majority of testing programs is designed to demonstrate the superiority of performance of one student over another rather than evaluate the degree to which an individual has mastered specific skills. The necessity of changing this orientation is discussed. (RW)

Describes the first phase of a four-phase model. This phase is a simple interactive computer model for setting staff mix "target objectives." (Author/IRT)

Argues that the diversity of community colleges justifies a more subtle system of classification than the traditional Carnegie system, but the large number of missions taken on by community colleges complicates this goal. Makes a distinction between a characteristics-based system and an output-based system. Uses distinction to discuss schemes…

Proposes a model of critical thinking in science with affective (dispositions), cognitive (knowledge, basic skills, and higher order skills), and behavioral (contextualized or generalized behaviors) components. Describes the links and mutual influences between the environment and these components. Emphasizes the role of affectivity in the…

Argues that the security of automated information systems must be made a management priority and effectively supported. The steps needed to achieve this objective are outlined in the areas of information resources management planning, budgeting and costing, directing, organizing, training, and controlling. A list of suggested readings is provided.…

Discusses the relationship between student assessment and instructional improvement. Describes the development and administration of a Teaching Goals Inventory, which helps teachers clarify what they want their students to learn and helps institutions discover teaching priorities among departments and within the college as a whole. (DMM)

Students in special schools or classes can follow mainstream curricula if sufficient support is provided through objective-based curricula. Identified are types of special education curricula, elements of curriculum planning and organization, characteristics of an objectives-based curriculum, specification of curriculum objectives, and suggestions…