Discussion of educational objectives rests on the unsubstantiated assumption that educators have valid and reliable means of determining outcomes. Most of what goes on in teacher training programs today is based upon what the instructor believes "should" happen and not what "has been shown" to happen. (HD)

This document describes the instructional and the management information aspects of a competency-based education system. The discussion revolves around an explanation of the principles upon which the model is based, a description of the model itself, and an explanation of the developmental processes used to bring the system into fruition.…

A discussion of instructional systems characterized by a set of learner objectives or competencies in which three processes bring about individualization: assessment, diagnosis and prescription. (Author/HB)

This document examines how subjects accomplish the task of matching movements to the characteristics of the performance environment. Literature pertaining to this topic is reviewed from the areas of time/motion study of industrial tasks, timing of coincidence-anticipation tasks, and cinematographic analysis of motor skill performance. A research…

The result of a cooperative project of the Center for Vocational and Technical Education at the Ohio State University and the McGraw-Hill Book Company, this manual was prepared to develop prototypes of performance goals for use by curriculum specialists and developers of instructional materials in vocational and technical education and to provide…

This paper discusses the discrepancy between the realities of required inservice teacher performances and the operational outcomes of teacher certification as it is now practiced, and suggests a strategy for establishing a system for evaluating teacher competencies and basing certification policies on that system. Data from a comprehensive…