Using a ring-tossing exercise the authors show how data can be gathered to show how group pressures alter behavior, how to go about setting realistic goals, and what factors go into goal setting; or to demonstrate the role of worker participation in goal setting. (NL)

A variety of views as to what the objectives of the newly formed Community Development Society should be is expressed in this article. Included are discussions of: (1) a viable professional organization, (2) "a mutual-benefit" association in which the primary beneficiaries are the members, (3) a motivator of learning, (4) a means of…

It is important for schools to instill in their students the idea that their education does not end with their first degree or job. (CK)

IEY serves to underline the world-wide needs and goals of education in the broadest sense. (LS)

Summarizes theoretical considerations in determining, formulating, and specifying training goals and indicates how current practice may benefit from broader application of the ideas developed in various academic philosophies. Sixteen references. (Editor/LY)

From a series of studies to determine the everyday problems of American teachers, this article lists five unfulfilled goals that teachers seem to share and three ways to meet them. (Author/WD)

Uses theoretical considerations and examples from past educational experience, including the Pilot State Dissemination Program, to argue that rational, goal-based, sequential planning models inhibit educational planning. (Author/RW)

Lists the seven objectives of the Canadian Library Association regarding literacy. (CHC)

In a review of John Warden's "Process Perspectives: Community Education as Process," the author offers some perspectives of his own. (Author/MLF)

Presents six research-based guidelines for the design of instruction which can be applied by instructional developers to increase achievement of affective objectives. (Author)

Argues that Waldo and Bauman's Goals and Process (GAP) matrix does not include task/work groups. Claims that it is not in the best interest of group work to undo or rework the Association for Specialists in Group Work's four core groups as a model. States that the field of group work needs a commonly shared framework/categorization from which to…

This response to Waldo and Bauman's article on the Goals and Process (GAP) matrix addresses two categorizations of group work: specialty groups and the GAP matrix. Briefly describes them, discusses their application to therapeutic groups for childhood sexual-abuse adult survivor groups, and proposes some adaptations. (Author/MKA)

Claims that Waldo and Bauman's Goals and Process (GAP) matrix improves the ability of both researchers and practitioners to communicate in more sophisticated terms about the goals and processes of various groups. Proposes that the GAP matrix be revised without retaining the original categories because they are obscure and obsolete. (MKA)

What happens when teams from 57 cities building afterschool systems gather to discuss two key system responsibilities--improving afterschool programs and using data for informed decision-making? Lots of rich discussion. This report covers a national afterschool conference held in February 2013. It details what mayors, program providers, system…