This pamphlet is aimed at helping an individual to construct behavioral objectives. The first two criteria of a good behavioral objective are that the objectives be described in terms of the learner and an observable behavior or product. This publication is specifically designed to provide operational meaning to the observable behavior and to help…

Author defends the need for the indoctrination of those values that can be defended and lived honestly." (MB)

A brief description of four major behavior levels which the author suggests the student must pass through during the learning process. (AK)

This article describes the counselor educator as a model who can combine positive reinforcement techniques, imitative learning, and microcounseling skills to share studnet-counselor development. Pertinent research and theory are reviewed. (Author)

Accelerated massed desensitization and anxiety management training were compared with standard systematic desensitization in terms of reducing self-reported test anxiety in high test-anxious college students. All three treatments significantly reduced test anxiety as compared with a waiting list control group. (Author)

Investigated high and low entering behavior levels and different cognitive levels of behavioral objectives across four treatments. Findings indicated that preassessment of student knowledge is a useful educational tool and that educators should be cognizant of learning variables that interact in the learning process so that unfounded…

A college drug education course is examined to determine whether (1) it affected students' consumption of drugs and (2) whether drug consumption is stimulated by such a course. It was concluded that consumption was not significantly reduced, while the use of amphetamines slightly increased. (MJB)

Offers techniques designed to help adolescents learn the skills of self-management. (FL)

Compared effects of six sessions of group counseling of nine chronic home hemodialysis patients with a comparable no treatment control group. Comparisons revealed no significant differences between groups. Subsequent testing a year later suggested that hemodialysis patients use the defensive mechanism of denial in adapting to their condition.…

By employing an analytic method developed by the authors entitled the Inventory of Dramatic Behavior, this project set out to accomplish the following goals: (1) to provide a developmental profile of dramatic behavior of Florida elementary school children, (2) to correlate such data with previous results from a New York City sample, and (3) to…

Three premises underlie the practice of microteaching: that much of teaching consists of behaviors, that the total performance can be broken into smaller pieces of behavior with little consideration given to the relationship between these parts, and that of a teaching performance can be usefully analyzed without consideration of what precedes or…

Described is an educational program conducted during the summer of 1968 for three groups of Indian Children. (RY)

Examines effects of self-fulfilling prophecies of students and proposes reframing to solve these difficulties. Reframing proper self-description is a way of thinking that facilitates learning and reduces classroom tensions. Giving children support and the opportunity to reframe their ideas to more closely approximate reality leads to substantial…