Graduate attributes and course learning outcomes are an integral part of higher education in Australia. Testing the performance of graduates in the workplace with regard to graduate attributes and course learning outcomes is a not a common occurrence. This study has road tested the graduate attributes and course learning outcomes of a bachelor…

Educating management students on the connections between business and climate change is essential both to their careers and to society's ability to solve the climate challenge. To impart deep and lasting learning on this topic, the authors developed a multischool negotiation simulation that is unique in its intensiveness, cross-sector design, and…

The Spiral Curriculum is predicated on cognitive theory advanced by Jerome Bruner (1960), who wrote, "We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development." In other words, even the most complex material, if properly structured and presented, can be understood by…

In 2011, the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition revisited its 1999 National Survey of Senior Seminars and Capstone Courses to explore the current state of culminating experiences in American higher education. Drawn from a sample of public and private colleges and universities across the country, the…

Describes plan for providing expanded course offerings desired by faculty or needed by students without "proliferation . (Editor)

General systems theory can be applied to problems in the teaching of speech communication courses. The author describes general systems theory as it is applied to the designing, conducting and evaluation of speech communication courses. (Author/MS)

The documents listed below are sets of instructional objectives for 39 courses taught at the junior college level. The specific objectives are typically arranged in terms of several major course goals. The major goals indicate what is generally to become of students taking the course by specifying actions to be taken, skills to be learned,…

Response Article Nr.2 on a special topic: "The Means-Ends Problem of Education in the Humanities. See AA 502 148 and AA 502 149 for the main article and the first response article, respectively.

The compendium is an annotated bibliography of materials containing instructional objectives and of objectives-based materials collected from institutions, school systems, state departments of education, and commercial producers of educational materials. Organization of listings is by topic, grade range, and alphabetical order. A listing of…

The teacher's guide outlines lessons from a correspondence learning program for parents of preschool deaf blind children. Learning steps and objectives are listed for eight areas covered by the program: communication, gross motor development, fine motor development, eating, sleeping, toilet training, dressing/undressing, and personal hygiene.…

A STUDY OF ECONOMICS INSTRUCTION IN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC AND PRIVATE JUNIOR COLLEGES WAS ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH REVIEW OF CATALOGS, COURSE OUTLINES, AND OTHER MATERIALS SUPPLIED BY THE COLLEGES, AND THROUGH VISITATION AND TEST ADMINISTRATION AT SELECTED COLLEGES. ALTHOUGH 78 OF THE 80 INSTITUTIONS OFFERED A 1-YEAR PRINCIPLES COURSE AND APPROXIMATELY…

Social studies is among the newest subjects to emerge in the curriculum. Considers its development within a large local educational authority. (RK)

From October 1 through December 31, 1965, activity was concentrated on the selection of a curriculum and the development of topic objectives within each course of study. The proposed curriculum outlined for grades 9 through 14 is based on meeting the four identified domains of specific vocational, general vocational, citizenship, and…

Questionnaire survey of teacher opinion shows disparity between teacher's ideal priority of objectives (scientific methodology ranked high) and the teachers perception of the objectives of the O-Level General Certificate of Education. (AL)