Some in the field of educational technology have called for offering bachelor's degrees. Unfortunately, the literature base only provides guidance on designing, developing, and delivering master's and doctoral degree programs. This article, in distinction, focuses on the design of a bachelor's degree program by focusing on the perceptions of…

Outlines procedures and assumptions for instituting a doctoral program in business communication. Lists general/specific requirements for enrollment, and suggests business-core and interdepartmental curricula. (RL)

This paper presents the eight major categories of recommendations made by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' (NCTM's) booklet "An Agenda for Action," that are considered components of programs designed to improve mathematics education, and as a by-product, raise mathematics scores of pupils on standardized tests. The three…

The president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) projects forward to 2001 and speaks of changes that began in 1990 that restored mathematics education in the United States. The material speaks directly to needed changes and problems in 1981. (MP)

A description is provided of the scope of the metrication process, the curricular changes it will bring, and the role of instructional television in metric education. The cognitive and affective impacts of metrication upon adults and children are analyzed, along with the opportunity which it provides to re-examine the role of measurement in the…

A preliminary report on an educational program "Inside/Out", dealing with life-coping skills is presented. In Part I, life-coping skills are defined as the affective, cognitive, and psychomotor skills useful for dealing with life's problems and whose continuing acquisition promotes individual growth. An historical perspective reviews the…

A proposal for the creation of a series of instructional television programs has been developed by the Agency for Instructional Television. The programs will focus upon essential skills in the areas of communications, computation, inquiry, and analysis and evaluation and will be organized at three levels for children of kindergarten age through…

This report is intended to provide attention to issues that the Cambridge Conference feels are related to the mathematical training of elementary school teachers. The document is divided into three parts. Part I, titled "The Problems and Proposals Towards the Solution," contains the following chapters: (1) Introduction to the Report; (2)…

The ways in which a sample of faculty members from the University of Illinois at Chicago create curricula is described and compared with methods selected from the curriculum development literature. An overview is presented of the university's Curriculum Development Grants (CDG) Committee program, its historical development, and several domains of…

The activities of the Secondary Curriculum Improvement Program (SCIP) of the New Orleans Public Schools from August 1977 to January 1981 are described in this report. Part 1 presents the organization process of the program, including the development of goals and objectives for the program, the organizational structure of the SCIP Centralized…