This Algebra I curriculum guide, produced under the direction of the State of Louisiana Department of Public Education, is a segment of the educational program established in response to accountability, assessment, and competency-based education laws. This guide is designed to represent the best thinking of a selected statewide committee…

This Algebra II curriculum guide, produced under the direction of the State of Louisiana Department of Public Education, is a segment of the educational program established in response to accountability, assessment, and competency-based education laws. This guide is designed to represent the best thinking of a selected statewide committee…

This metric education curriculum guide, produced under the direction of the State of Louisiana Department of Public Education, was developed as part of a metrication plan approved by the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. This guide is designed to help teachers prepare students for the predominantly metric world in which they…

This trigonometry curriculum guide, produced under the direction of the State of Louisiana's Department of Public Education, is a segment of the educational program established in response to accountability, assessment, and competency-based education laws. This guide is designed to represent the best thinking of a selected statewide committee…

The document presents exercises, documentation, and summaries from the second assessment of music by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Objectives were to test 9-, 13-, and 17-year-old students' ability to value music as an important realm of human experience, to identify the elements and expressive controls of music, and to…

Objectives, with sample test items and explanations of answers are presented for instruction in judgment and logic in analyzing fallacies and weaknesses in arguments. This type of material is not usually taught in pre-college curricula, but has been geared for the secondary grades. Each fallacy is explained after the stated objective, and answers…

Unsupervised do-it-yourself therapy constitutes an exceptionally important issue that calls for more empirical and scientific investigation of the validity of publications in this field. Rational-emotive therapy (RET), one of the most popular forms of self-help treatment, has led to several generalizations. (1) Cognitive and cognitive-behavior…

Knowledge objectives, skill and process objectives, and affective objectives are given for teaching K-12 social studies. Knowledge objectives are provided that help students to function rationally and humanely through a reservoir of data, ideas, concepts, generalizations, and theories in combination with thinking, valuing, and social…

The philosophy of Unified Education is holistic, unidisciplinary, and generalistic. The problems raised by these attributes are the attendant difficulties in collection/analysis/projection on a time/content grid; the flux of methodological ground rules; and the tentativeness of generalists to project while they are in a stage of collection and…

A learning packet is a unit of study on any given topic which allows the student to work somewhat independently from his/her teacher and from the learning rate of the remainder of the class. Most learning packets contain a self-assessment test to find out exactly where the student is with respect to a particular skill. Good learning packets…

Observing that available standardized tests purporting to measure problem solving in mathematics do not validly reflect currently accepted definitions of problem solving, while more valid individualized measures are costly in terms of time, this researcher undertook (1) to construct a paper-and-pencil instrument which might better reflect…

Four considerations in the teaching of reading in the content areas were discussed: (1) the state of teaching itself, of reading, and of the content areas; (2) the characteristics of today's student; (3) some basic assumptions and arguments for content-area reading; and (4) steps toward implementing a content-area reading program. The author makes…

A basic goal of the evaluation program described here was the congruence of the evaluation instruments with the course objectives. Following a brief review of MACOS--its assumptions, view of man and learning, and its structural and conceptual components--the specific evaluation instruments are described. Such variables as classroom environment,…

A performance objective is a description of an observable task to be performed by a learner to demonstrate that he has learned something. Performance goals stated clearly in terms of observable student performance can be used to improve educational methods. Because it is relatively difficult to construct indirect objectives that will…

This pamphlet of behavioral objectives for teachers of elementary school reading instruction was compiled by the Mesa Public School System, Mesa, Arizona. Terminal goals are stated behaviorally for prereading and readiness skills, which include comprehension, interests in letters and books, visual perception, and psychomotor awareness. Terminal…