The author presents and explains a classification scheme intended to define learning behavior in terms of cognitive principles, affective principles, transformational principles, and heuristic principles. (LS)

Advantages and disadvantages to writing behavioral objectives, especially for teachers of language arts, are discussed. The three commonly accepted domains of learnings--cognitive, affective, and psychomotor--are presented in relation to verbs used to indicate learning in those domains. Steps in identifying evidences of learning are: (1) State…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether the use of behavioral objectives in teaching poetry to ninth graders results in understanding on all cognitive levels and response on all affective levels. Four heterogeneously grouped ninth grade classes were randomly selected and assigned so that all four classes were involved in testing, and…

This article illustrates ways in which the schools are dehumanizing and suggests ways in which education can be humanized. (DN)

This study is an attempt to develop a high school poetry-teaching model designed for attitude development. The study reviewed related research and literature on objectives for teaching English and surveyed a school to determine student preferences among the poetry-teaching methods currently recommended. The model proposed includes the general…

The document consists of collected articles which provide information to teachers on constructing goals for K-12 social studies and developing learning activities which implement those goals. The project was undertaken in response to national interest in citizenship education and in an attempt to enable teachers to identify basic skills to which…