This guide, focusing on participative management and the requirements of public decision-making in education, is designed as a management referent for the development and use of verifiable performance objectives. In addition to an indexed main section, the volume contains an anlysis matrix for educational objectives; formats for and examples of…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the ways in which the occupational behaviors of Montana secondary school counselors are complementary to, or in conflict with, the expectancies of their various publics. In this study the counselors and their various publics (counselor-educators, school administrators, teachers, students, parents) were…

Algebra I and General Mathematics courses directed at a ninth grade population are being designed to include a tutorial program under computer control and a variety of supplemental learning experiences. Student performance data will not only control the flow of the program, but also will enable the classroom teacher to assign appropriate…

Algebra I and General Mathematics courses using tutorial instructional programs under computer control supplemented by "off-line" materials (included in the computer controlled testing) have been developed for a ninth grade student population. The relationships of instructional materials, pretests, posttests, and choice points are…

The Santa Fe Precision Teaching for Effective Learning, (PTEL) an ESEA Title III program, was selected as a remedial instructional approach to the performance and motivational problems of Santa Fe students. It proposed the following six major program objectives: (1) planning and implementation of start-up activities; (2) staff training in the…

The purpose of Project PRIMES (progress research in meeting elementary standards) is three-fold: to design and test a model for evaluating elementary schools by state standards, to develop a set of evaluation instruments, and to aid teachers and administrators in the application and interpretation of evaluation procedures. The project's major…

This discussion of the Pennsylvania Model Project follows a flow chart to cover all aspects of the program: mission, awareness and understanding, advantages and disadvantages, commitment, needs assessment, isolation of problems, setting priorities, assessing the present program, reevaluation of priorities, planning staff allocation, goals and…