The six major chapters of this book are deliberately couched as perspective, for they help the reader view historical facts in relationship to the past, present, and future. The authors' topic is curriculum development, centering on the opportunities for growth and development for all who are influenced or affected by the guidance of the school.…

The purpose of this instrument is to assist course designers to achieve consensus on the development of instructional objectives written at informational and planning levels. By evaluating each objective in terms of specificity, relevance, instructional context, and taxonomic location, faculty may achieve improved communication of their intent and…

This report describes the planning, writing, evaluation, and results and recommendations of the Secondary School Mathematics Curriculum Improvement Study. This study was begun "to formulate and test a unified secondary school mathematics program (7-12) that will take capable students well into current collegiate mathematics" and to "determine the…

Studying the structural nature of a literary work was considered by a Harvard Graduate School of Education seminar as a rational, nonsubjective basis for a literature curriculum in the elementary grades. Russian formalist criticism was used as a basic approach to the study of literature, and Vladimir Propp's approach to the folktale was used as an…

The material in this monograph was originally presented at the Conference on Needed Research in Mathematics Education at the University of Georgia. The complete proceedings of the Conference (including an abstract of this monograph) are reported in Volume I, Number 1, Fall 1967 of the Journal of Research and Development in Education. Presented is…

The speeches of John Dobbin and Irvin J. Lehman to the Invitational Conference on Measurement in Education are presented. In Lehman's paper, "Testing in the Year 2001", he states that testing in the future, or in any year, must provide data to assist students, parents, professional educators, tax payers, and legislators in the decision making…

In this yearbook, a group of scholars have written articles designed to present new insights into curriculum development and to push thinking beyond traditional frontiers. Each writer has placed emphasis on those facets of his field which he deems most significant. Paired with each of these presentations is a chapter in which a curriculum…

This paper utilizes a case study approach to identify the ideosyncratic variables related to the success or failure of educational change efforts. Some of the variables discussed include ethnic, economic, religious, and military factors; and national and local problems. Ways of testing generalizations developed in this manner are also proposed.…

This document is a collection of three essays that deal with the pamphlet "A Search for Valid Content for Curriculum Courses" (ED 040 129). The essay by Marian Martinello (University of Florida) is a review. Martinello finds that the pamphlet lacks continuity and a unifying theme and ultimately that it provides little direct assistance in dealing…

Flexible modular scheduling is discussed as a means for achieving individualized instruction in the classroom. Scheduling, in general, is presented as a compromise among four elements: a) individualizing the educational program for each student, b) utilizing available facilities, c) utilizing available staff, and d) capitalizing on staff…

This document contains summary reports from 15 pilot centers participating in a project, whose aim is "to discover and develop ways and means to teach the reciprocal relation between religion and other elements in the human culture in order that the prospective teacher, whether he teaches literature, history, the arts, science, or other subjects,…

These guidelines, which set standards for social studies programs K-12, can be used to update existing programs or may serve as a baseline for further innovation. The first section, "A Basic Rationale for Social Studies Education," identifies the theoretical assumptions basic to the guidelines as knowledge, thinking, valuing, social participation,…

The coding language INSTRUCT is a high-level programing language designed for programing computer-assisted instruction lessons. As it is presently implemented on the PDP-10 computer, a "lesson processor" transforms the INSTRUCT lessons into a numeric code that can be understood by a teaching program called INST. INST controls the…

This report was developed by the graduate students enrolled in Education 684, General Education in Higher Education, at Appalachian State University, and clarifies the 5 steps followed to develop a program of general education in higher education. These were: (1) consideration of the persistent questions in higher education that have implications…

This article is the 7th in a series of AAHE research reports. It summarizes research that has been done on academic reform and the resistance to it and speculates what this research implies for future practice. Academic or curricular change is first of all organizational change and colleges and universities are organized and run in such a way as…