The often conflicting roles of the foreign language teacher and the guidance counselor are explored in this paper. Teachers are advised to foster improved communication in the classroom and thereby help students improve communication skills. A list of commonly held attitudes of language teachers and guidance personnel toward each other are…

This paper describes the study which attempts to determine if civic education and political socialization topics are international in scope and, moreover, if instruments can be designed to measure cross-national effects of such education. An international committee first meeting in Hamburg, Germany, in 1966, decided to treat the subject…

The Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development is designing the employer based career education model. The model, now at the advanced design phase and soon to be pilot tested, reflects: (1) a comprehensive educational program, (2) the needs of youth, ages 13-18, (3) an educational system to be controlled by public and private…

This is the text of a colloquium of recent computer technology on psychometrics, particularly as practiced in the University of Washington's Bureau of Testing. Seven stages of career guidance are enumerated: (1) deciding what to measure; (2) developing the measures; (3) administering the measures; (4) scoring the measures; (5) weighting the scored…

A course in the basic principles of journalism is presented. The principles are studied as applied to writing columns, reviews, feature stories, human interest articles, fashion reporting, comics, personality interviews, and other types of entertaining writing for the newspaper. Course objectives include: (1) The student will identify feature…

A course to train students in proper handling of school accounts--contracts, bookkeeping, business letters, the significance of school audit--is presented. Selling advertising and developing ideas of a profit and/or publicity-oriented nature are also covered. Course objectives include the following: (1) The student will explain the purpose of a…

A monograph exploring issues in behavior and behavioral objectives is presented. Following the introduction, there are six sections in this book. In the opening section, George Henry uses a philosophical point of view to look for goals underlying the behaviorist's approach to English teaching. Section two is a sympathetic examination of the ends…

A music course of instruction in junior chorus, to develop students' performance skills individually and in ensemble, is described. A prerequisite for pupils is the ability to read music. Outlined are: the course description; enrollment guidelines; study objectives; course content; procedures; resources for pupils and teachers; and the assessment.…

A course in performing organization in which pupils develop increasing performance skills individually and in ensemble, with emphasis on stylistic characteristics of the music studied is presented. Course objectives include: (1) The student will determine the basic metric pattern of selected played examples; (2) The student will count and clap the…

This paper reports on the clinical and guidance component of a program designed to meet the needs of non-public school children in a New York City School District for the 1974-75 school year. In all, a total of 8,398 students from the non-public schools participated in the program. The evaluation of this program included: a) achievement measures…

This document reports the methods and results of a study conducted to develop statements of philosophy, goals, and division objectives for Lake Michigan College. The two main sources from which these were developed were: (1) laws, statutes, and constitutional provisions affecting operations of the college, along with existing philosophy and goals;…

The author reviews basic cognitive, affective, and skill objectives for elementary students related to the American Revolution. (DE)

The adult world expects more of its youth than cognitive proficiency, and merely to use pious rhetoric to advocate return to basics does not solve the existing educational problems. (DS)

Behavioral objectives should be regarded as one of several tools available to educators. Research should be directed toward determining their advantages and limitations, as well as the conditions under which they can be used more effectively. Conditions vary depending upon student awareness of and interest in stated objectives; clarity,…

This article considers the idea that an analysis of the structure of geography and of the nature of spatial concept development in children will reveal a valuable conceptual link that might serve as a theoretical basis for developing objectives in geographic education. (Author)