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Khoo, Benjamin; Harris, Peter – American Journal of Business Education, 2009
The Information Systems (IS) curriculum needs to be updated frequently due to the rapid rate of advances in information systems (IS) and the technologies that drive IS, and also industry's skill requirement of IS graduates. This paper describes a Career Skills Oriented Approach to enhance the graduate IS curriculum based on current information…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Enrichment, Skill Analysis
Milliner, Gladys W. – 1983
The process of designing a program teaching technical and professional communication skills should begin with a definition of the problem. An analysis of community needs and student backgrounds and interests should be made to effectively tailor the course to students and their career fields. Such consideration was given to two technical…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Course Content, Course Objectives, Curriculum Development
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Pittsburgh, PA.
A sample of student tasks and topic objectives which were developed for woodworking courses in Project ABLE are given. A larger collection of these were identified for grades 10, 11, and 12. Prior to this activity an analysis of selected occupations was made, and a frequency count of skills and knowledges was utilized to determine the necessary…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Core Curriculum, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives
Campbell, Clifton P. – 1980
Instructional systems development (ISD) is a systems approach to curriculum development and instructional delivery. It is oriented toward occupational needs with an emphasis on what it is that students must learn to perform specific tasks, what facilities best provide a setting for the neccessary learning, and what instructional methods and media…
Descriptors: Course Objectives, Courses, Criterion Referenced Tests, Curriculum Development
Sinnett, William E. – 1974
The document is intended to expand and clarify the DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) process and product. As a process, it is a group analysis of a particular job or subject area; as a product, it is one or two sheets of paper showing a skill profile for a job or subject area which can serve as a curriculum outline or plan. The document consists of…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Cluster Grouping, Course Objectives, Curriculum Design
Texas State Technical Coll., Waco. – 1996
This document is intended to help education and training institutions deliver the Machine Tool Advanced Skills Technology (MAST) curriculum to a variety of individuals and organizations. MAST consists of industry-specific skill standards and model curricula for 15 occupational specialty areas within the U.S. machine tool and metals-related…
Descriptors: Automation, Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Education, Computer Assisted Manufacturing
Texas State Technical Coll., Waco. – 1996
This document is intended to help education and training institutions deliver the Machine Tool Advanced Skills Technology (MAST) curriculum to a variety of individuals and organizations. MAST consists of industry-specific skill standards and model curricula for 15 occupational specialty areas within the U.S. machine tool and metals-related…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Education, Computer Assisted Design, Computer Assisted Manufacturing
Tri-County Goal Development Project, Portland, OR. – 1974
The document is comprised of a large collection of program and course goals developed by outstanding teachers, together with a taxonomy of health education (which serves as a table of contents and provides an overview of the topics in the subject area) and several indexes to which the course goals are coded for reference: health education program…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Basic Skills, Career Education, Classification
Tri-County Goal Development Project, Portland, OR. – 1973
A collection of program and course goals in business education, developed by outstanding teachers using available models and guides, together with several indexes and a business education taxonomy which serves as a table of contents and provides an overview of the topics in the subject area, comprise the document. The goals state concisely what…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Business Education, Career Education, Classification
Texas State Technical Coll., Waco. – 1996
This volume developed by the Machine Tool Advanced Skill Technology (MAST) program contains key administrative documents and provides additional sources for machine tool and precision manufacturing information and important points of contact in the industry. The document contains the following sections: a foreword; grant award letter; timeline for…
Descriptors: Automation, Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Education, Computer Assisted Design
Daingerfield-Lone Star Independent School District, Daingerfield, TX. – 1990
The Agriculture 2+2 Curriculum Development Project was an articulated training program linking the last 2 years of secondary and the first 2 years of postsecondary training designed to prepare students for employment in 3 or more agricultural technology occupations. The curriculum provided for the development of saleable skills after grade 12 and…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Advisory Committees, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Occupations
Bottoms, Gene; Pucel, David J.; Phillips, Ione – 1997
This document is intended to help high school vocational-technical teachers design courses that result in high-quality learning for all their students. The book's seven chapters detail this process for designing courses that achieve the following results: model the concept of quality; produce independent learners; develop active participants in…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Change Strategies, Course Content, Course Descriptions