A symbiotic relationship exists between educational technology and human values. Educational technologists should examine the values that control their professional activity. (Author/STS)

Specifying criteria is a complex problem comprising three phases: valuation, criterion identification, and prescription. Criteria are useful for making, and necessary for substantiating, value claims but to specify in advance a set of criteria upon which to judge is self-limiting. Complete prior specification is undesirable in principle. (MT)

Reports concerns raised by an informally constituted research caucus at the 1983 business meeting of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) in Atlanta. (RH)

Satirizes management by objectives through a funny description of a new system of management by spontaneity. (MD)

Our colleges and universities have three basic responsibilities--instruction, research, and public service. (Author)

The contribution of several authorities who have influenced recent trends in the traditional forms of education are considered, material from the affective domain added, and a tentative model for adult education presented. (Author/SA)

The author suggests practical steps to prevent bookkeeping from becoming boring or frustrating to students. (AG)

Supporters of career education infer that it can meet ideal standards better than any other alternative. It is questionable whether this claim should be made for concepts evolved for dealing with the limited concerns of career development. Education is not simply a means for turning individuals into contributing economic producers. (SA)

The shift in classroom emphasis to relevancy of instruction by means of job-oriented lessons has produced observable changes in classroom atmosphere of a positive nature. To change the emphasis should not unduly burden the teacher. Student help can be employed in preparing materials, and the same time providing practical experience. (AG)

This first article in the insert, "Leisure Today," describes community education--its philosophy, objectives, and current problems. (JA)

Presents five prototypes to show how performance goals can be used in faculty evaluation. (Editor)