Provides a list of 27 cognitive objectives that are applicable to preschool and early childhood years. Relates elements of the list to the classification systems of Bloom, Gagne, and Briggs. (RL)

Two studies (N=56) assessed an instruction program designed to teach elementary school children a complex computer-programming skill--how to debug LOGO graphics and listing-processing programs. The use of a precise computer simulation model proved to be the crux of the instructional model's success. (TJH)

Offers guidelines for designing computer-based testing which demands high-level cognitive functioning of students using computer-assisted instruction as a learning mode. Examples of conceptual, principle, and procedural learning evaluation approaches, strengths and weaknesses within the formats described, and suggestions for improving the…

Describes a framework for science education programs that illustrates the interpenetration of affective experiences with the corresponding subject matter. Cognitive objectives are related to affective activities for personalizing and extending learning, and a daily journal is suggested as a means for identifying progress. (MLH)

This study examined the lesson plans of 67 teacher interns in Kentucky to determine the extent to which their lesson objectives were designed to develop higher order thinking skills in their students. Copies of the first lesson plans submitted by first year teachers in one large Kentucky school system for a 3-year period, 1995-1998, constituted…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the potential usefulness of autobiographies as instructional materials for general education objectives and an introspective appraisal of the method of analysis, identifying and analyzing the problems encountered in the use of the method. (Author/RK)

Award-winning instructional materials analyzed to determine the relationship between the types of teaching techniques and the specific instructional objectives and economics course content. (MF)

Assessment of science students is essential for the improvement of instruction. Objectives of science teaching must be clearly spelled out and different evaluation methods should be chosen to test these objectives. Author categorizes objectives of science teaching in three divisions: knowledge, skills, and personality characters. Students'…

Children were shown television sequences depicting black and white children teaching" concepts, to test whether concepts would be learned and whether social preferences would change; the children learned the concepts but preferred companions of their own color both before and after viewing. (SP)

Article provides a review of behavioral objectives and questions what is measureable. (Author/MM)

Reviews, some events within education since 1962 for the purpose of interpreting the nature of the current educational revolution and to assess its impact upon art education now and in the foreseeable future. (Author/AS)