See JC 690 392 above. [Not available in hard copy because of marginal reproducibility of original.]

See JC 690 392 above. [Not available in hard copy because of marginal reproducibility of original.]

See JC 690 392 above. [Not available in hard copy because of marginal reproducibility of original.]

This paper provides a general description of how Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is moving towards competency-based instruction. A planning retreat was held and all instructional programs offered by the University were assessed with regard to the overall purposes of the institution and the prospect of developing a competency-based…

Career education is for all people of all ages and has, as its common denominator, interaction among them. The concept underlying career education goes beyond academic and vocational activities to encompass the self actualization of each individual. Career education could be the vehicle by which a total view of the self worth of the individual is…

The purpose of this study is to throw light on the varying significance of the concept of lifelong education, to show what forces militate in its favor, to explore its dimensions, and to define its impact and consequences for the educational effort taken as a whole. In the first part of the study, a number of challenges are identified. Analyses…

Among the purposes of this study were: (1) to investigate, in a small number of institutions with differing characteristics, what on-campus and off-campus groups perceive the goals of their institutions to be, as well as what they believe their goals should be; (2) to evaluate whether the Delphi technique produces opinion convergence among…

These instructional objectives have been selected from materials submitted to the Curriculum Laboratory of the Graduate School of Education at UCLA. Arranged by major course goals, these objectives are offered simply as samples that may be used where they correspond to the skills, abilities, and attitudes instructors want their students to…

The range of teacher opinion concerning the worth of behavioral objectives for English is wide. The subject has provoked a great amount of heated discussion and has resulted in the resignation of at least one leading educational official. (CK)

Adults read a prose passage and responded to passages based on it which were either true or false and were phrased either affirmatively or negatively. True negatives yielded most errors, followed in order by false negatives, true affirmatives, and false affirmatives. (Author/RC)

This article outlines the goals and objectives of the National Society of Professional Engineers to ensure the application of engineering knowledge and skills in the public interest and to foster public understanding of engineering. (CS)

Included in this article are objectives of the Bureau and listing of numerous activities undertaken by the Bureau to attain each of them. Activities listed include mailings, meetings, proposal reviews, data collection, workshops, and information dissemination. (EB)

The text of the presidential address, presented at the forty-second national convention of the American Business Communication Association on December 29 1977, describes the association in terms of its membership, accomplishments, and objectives. (JMF)

Discusses what quality education is, identifying five major views about the purposes of schooling. (JMB)

Taking as his starting point the 1918 publication on "Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education: A Report of the Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education," the author provides his updated seven cardinal principles. (IRT)