The extent to which 152 undergraduates had negative affective expectations about goal setting was investigated by having students imagine moods and appraisals in pursuit of hypothetical goals. Students expected affective benefits more than they expected affective penalties of goal setting, suggesting that goal settings need not be connected with…

Provides a theoretical framework for professional-values education in social work that incorporates personal, social, political, and professional values dimensions, each with explicit learning objectives and educational outcomes. The currently prevalent infusion model of values education clarifies values but does not help students integrate…

The United States Coast Guard uses training situation analysis (TSA) to develop quantified training requirements, collect training and non-training performance data, and overcome turf issues to focus on performance outcomes. Presents the 1947 MLB (Motor Lifeboat Project) as a case study. Outlines 11 steps in the TSA needs analysis for teams and…

Investigates the extent to which parents' well-being and parenting styles provide a basis of the development of their children's cognitive and behavioral strategies in primary school. Reveals that maternal depressive symptomatology was associated with their children's use of maladaptive strategies, whereas maternal authoritative parenting styles…

Provides eight reasons why a trainer with an instructional technology background and an employee-centered focus on performance improvement should be involved in solving human performance problems. Abilities highlighted include: systematic thinker; systemic thinker; analytical; team player; excellent interpersonal and communication skills; knowing…

Suggests that training should be tied in to the strategic and operational goals and objectives of a company. Topics include the emergence of the knowledge society; changes in global economies; today's workforce training needs; how to link employees to business strategy; and why training doesn't always produce expected results. (LRW)

In this article, the author shares his own reflections on his forty-odd years of teaching history at the college level. He shares one of the most important things he learned during his career as a history teacher: Instructors should make clear to their students at the beginning of any survey course what it is that they expect their students to…

This brochure is intended to serve the following three purposes: (1) To provide Environmental Education Division (EED) managers and staff with a common understanding of EED's mission and goals, the underlying values held as fundamental to EED activities, and specific priorities necessary for making day-to-day operating decisions; (2) To provide a…

In contrast to Freud's later and revised view of the etiology of hysterical, or dissociative, symptoms, it is now known that real, and not fantasized, sexual experiences in childhood are experienced in disociative symptomatology. It is useful to understand that incest involves both traumatic events, that is, incidents of sexual violation per se,…

A description of PPBS, a program for establishing accountability by organizing processes into five categories: 1) establishment of overall objectives; 2) establishment of programs to support these objectives; 3) consideration of future implications; 4) development of alternative means of meeting objectives; and 5) development of criteria for…

Fourteen science educators were asked to list the criteria they believed could be used in differentiating between process- and content-centered objectives, and to classify forty statements as being process-centered, content-centered, both, or not an instructional objective. Results showed a lack of agreement in classification among the…

A critique of the status quo in higher education describes the results of a lack of stated purposes for a liberal education. Some of those purposes should be acquiring information and knowledge, acquiring skills and habits of thought; developing qualities of mind, judgement, and values; and acquiring understanding and competence in the arts. (JH)

Liberal education must be revitalized because it remains the best means yet found by which scholars, artists, and teachers can contribute to the solution of the critical conditions that threaten to engulf the human race. (Author)