The director of a recently completed curriculum development project describes the project's need for product criteria to serve as guidelines for materials development. The background and context for criteria development involved the need to reconceptualize and redesign the contents and methods of career exploration activities envisioned for junior…

The criteria identified may be applied in determining the training requirements for both the complete job and the individual tasks within the job. This study concluded that a combination of types of training can best satisfy the needs of the initial and continuing requirements. (HD)

This competency-based teacher education cognitive development module consists of a curriculum building component. Enabling elements of the module encompass writing behavioral objectives, classifying objectives by criteria type, designing flow charts, developing assessment procedures, specifying enabling activities, and outlining module and…

This document is an outline guide to accompany group discussion sessions on the fundamentals and operationalization of modules. The document begins with an introduction that explains the various outline pages. The following are presented and discussed in the guide: (1) the five elementary characteristics of a module, (2) definitions of modules,…

The author advocates the adaptation of Air Force vocational-technical training materials for civilian school curricula. (AA)

This paper proposes an Evaluator Development Program to meet the need for improvement and development in educational evaluation. The objective is to enhance effective evaluation processes in elementary, secondary, and higher education through the institutionalization of evaluator roles within differential settings. The program involves the…

How modules are organized to provide flexibility in a curriculum is described. (Author)

Four years ago Sterling College began to develop a competency curriculum. This document presents a working definition and basic assumptions about this curriculum. The curriculum includes 9 college-wide competencies that are required for graduation and that are predicted on several basic assumptions: (1) The curriculum includes the total program of…

This program outlines a plan, using a series of competency-based exams, to evaluate student progress in given courses taken at the National College of Education. It details a method by which students request and take sequential competency tests for specific course work during a term of registration. The program also outlines provisions for…

The tendency to organize nursing curricula on the basis of the specific health care setting rather than the nursing process does not represent very sound preparation. Experiences should be incorporated to socialize students into the world of evolving functions, and the educator's perceptions of those functions has real significance. (Author/AJ)

A taxonomy and a list of 108 verbs and their synonyms were compiled as first steps in developing a common language for describing the content of business and office education. By synthesizing the initial data, 57 principal verbs and their 162 synonyms proved adequate for describing 4,548 office tasks. Educational implications will be discussed in…

This report describes a 1-year effort at San Francisco State College to incorporate as part of a Cycle 5 Teacher Corps Project some aspects of competency-based education in the instruction of the Teacher Corps interns. A 3-hour weekly course in curriculum and instruction occurring for the entire 1970-71 academic year served as the vehicle of…