This article summarizes the results of a survey of 100 secondary school guidance counselors on the current status of measuring student affective outcomes. (DS)

Accountability, behavioral objectives, and measurement in the affective domain, rather than the cognitive domain, are discussed. (TA)

Over forty articles dealing with studies of affective variables were analyzed in this report of the Elementary School Subcommittee of the National Council on Measurement in Education's Task Force on Measurement of Affective Outcomes. The measurement problems were of both a theoretical and practical nature. The greatest practical problem is…

By securing a network of variables related to cognitive outcomes, we may emphasize important behaviors that are adjuncts to learning and mitigate measurement problems of the performance contract. (Author)

A taxonomy of educational objectives which conceptualizes interpersonal skills in terms of measurable behavior is described. The categories represent six aspects of leadership capability--one of them cognitive (conceptualization), one of them cognitive-affective (evaluation), and four of them cognitive-affective-behavioral (leading, following,…