This report is designed to share the experiences of Oregon's Department of Education, thus far, with both the conceptual and actual use of indicators in assessing progress toward State level goals and objectives. The first chapter outlines the history of the study and briefly discusses the concept of indicators as used in the report. The report…

Cognition, not to be confused with perception, reception, or stimulus detection, is defined as relationships of sensory experiences in single-loop matrices. The reticular system of the upper brain stem is centered upon as the likely locus of sensory filtering and modification that can modulate language usage. That is, higher cognitive functions…

The purposes of this report, prepared for a school board, are to give a brief statement of the need for environmental education, then to present a summary of the objectives, content, curriculum, financing, management, and history of the program cooperatively developed by a college and school district in Montana. This program in the first five…

This report contains a description and evaluation of the College Bound Program. It was designed to enhance the cognitive abilities of 9,300 high school students who were eligible for Title I funds. The program was conducted in 24 high schools with approximately one fourth of the subjects at each grade level. The evaluation was designed to…

A comparative analysis was made of academically experienced and inexperienced students in a college level counseling education program to determine the influence of practical experience in counseling. Findings indicated that most students in both groups benefited by receiving counseling skills training. (Author/DB)

Describes a teaching module on special relativity in which priority is given to attitudinal objectives as opposed to objectives of content. Explains the implications of this for methodology and course structure, and discusses the course material together with some conclusions and evaluations of the module. (Author/GA)

This taxonomy should be read with Mr. Annarino's article, "Physical Education Objective; Traditional vs. Developmental," published in the October 1977 issue of "Journal of Physical Education and Recreation." (PBS)

Reviews several schemes for organizing science laboratory objectives and activities and for analyzing several techniques designed to measure these laboratory outcomes. The need for further study and analysis of psychomotor behaviors in science education is emphasized. (HM)

The degree of agreement with certain selected objectives for teaching as viewed by the four groups was examined. The subjects rank-ordered 12 objectives and differences among the four means of the ranks were analyzed by the analysis of variance. Statistically significant differences among the four groups were found on 10 of the objectives.…

Planned instructional units developed by 60 teacher trainees were evaluated to determine how closely cognitive and affective objectives would be met by suggested activities. The conclusion is that programs in teacher education institutions have little effect on instructional planning skills of their trainees. (Author/DB)

Describes a self-awareness process that enables the teacher to teach cognitive coping rather than to discipline children. The process involves playing the Okazi Word Game, keeping a coping diary, the teacher coding his own behavior as well as the childrens using the Coping Behaviors Index, and task analysis. (Author/AM)

Emphasizes the need in communication education to balance the teaching of specific terminal behaviors with the teaching of cognitive learning. Suggests teaching methods for implementing cognitive goals in the classroom. (MH)

Studied relationships among questioning lapse time'' and the cognitive levels of teachers' questions and youngsters' responses, using Bloom's taxonomy and tape recordings in student teaching. Concluded that teachers' questions above the memory level could serve as a mechanism for promoting youngsters' learning at higher cognitive levels. (CC)

Considered conceptual learning in music education and its meaning for students. (RK)