There is nationwide pressure by the taxpaying public to have teachers be accountable for what they are trying to teach. Massive inservice education programs may become necessary for school districts to equip teachers to cope with this change. Staff development in many school districts often consists of a lecture or speech by some "expert" on…

This paper describes the results of an effort to apply a classification system developed by the Human Resources Research Organization to a set of termanal objectives in reading. The classification system contained five factors, of three levels each. Some 312 terminal objectives and 766 approximations were classified by three raters. Agreement…

This bibliography is included in the fourth series of general bibliographies developed to disseminate information on documents analyzed at the ERIC Information Analysis Center for Science and Mathematics Education. Reported are 386 citations of selected documents related to science and mathematics curricula. The documents include research reports,…

This paper lists the components of a curriculum theory, examines the constraints on theory building, and suggests several points at which the domain of curriculum research might be distinguished from learning and instruction. (Author/LLR)

In order to determine the relationship between teacher participation in curriculum planning and teacher attitudes toward curriculum planning and use, the Curriculum Attitude Inventory (CAI) was developed and tested twice on groups of teachers who had been identified by their principals as having either strong positive or negative attitudes toward…

This 2-volume document reports on a study to (1) explore the use of network analysis as a means of describing and comparing selected instances of the curriculum change process, (2) compare the selected instances with each other, and (3) compare five conceptualizations of the change process when applied to specific change situations. (Considerable…

This study was concerned with the effects of selected experiences on the ability of preschool children to use conservation of length and conservation of length relations. The experiences involved the equivalence relation "the same length as" and the two order relations "shorter than" and "longer than." The subjects were 51 four and five year old…

Curriculum management can be defined as an orderly, ongoing process of review and evaluation of the entire curriculum. It controls for unnecessary course duplication and overlap by holding each course accountable to both fiscal and content criteria. Presently, most college curricula are not being controlled by effective systematic evaluation. The…

This paper explores some problems of adaptation of curriculum materials that need to be faced by product developers and teacher trainers. It focuses on: a) developing teacher skill in purposeful variation, b) promoting adaptation of materials, and c) transforming available products. First, the Responsive Teaching project, designed to instruct…

The intent of this study was to discern implications for elementary curriculum inherent in Piaget's theory of the development of concrete logical thinking. Five generalizations regarding concrete operational thinking were used as a basis for discussing the implications of Piaget's theory for an elementary curriculum. Implications focused on…

This article proposes a new look at an old dispute in the area of curriculum theory, that of logical and psychological organization. First, erroneous assumptions about both of these forms of organization are examined. Unwarranted associations with the immaturity-maturity continuum, the process-product distinction, and the intellectual-practical…

This report describes and evaluates an adult education experiment for the elderly of the Uptown Model Cities area of Chicago. The purpose of the "Senior Studies" program was to increase opportunities for adult and continuing education for the older people of the area through the development of a curriculum that encompassed art, literature, music,…

The purpose of this study was to develop a suggested journalism curriculum for California junior colleges, based upon the functions and content of journalism programs as they should be, as perceived by a representative group of junior college instructrs and editors of daily and weekly newspapers in California. Data were collected from…

Part A contains general comments on various aspects of computer science education, particularly that for the mass. Part B describes some of the concrete examples carried out successfully. (Author)

This paper, fifth in a series produced by the Science and Mathematics Education Information Analysis Center, is based on an address given at the 44th Annual Meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching by an Assistant Superintendent of the Cleveland Public Schools. Curriculum developers have tended to view curriculum as…