This guide provides secondary business teachers with ideas for teaching shorthand and evaluating students. Content is presented in six sections. The first section lists seven behavioral objectives for shorthand instruction. Section 2 presents strategies (suggestions) for handling the various components of shorthand instruction and includes…

A study of the goals of an accelerated composition and literature curriculum was subdivided into a "concurrence" strand designed to determine the agreement on course objectives by students, parents, and teachers, and an "attainment" strand to determine the extent to which students attained existing objectives. The study involved 269 tenth and…

THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PUBLIC EDUCATION, SPONSORED JOINTLY BY THE UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC, AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION AND THE INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF EDUCATION, ISSUED AN OFFICIAL POLICY STATEMENT. RECOMMENDATIONS WERE MADE CONCERNING (1) THE VALUES OF STUDYING A MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGE, (2) THE PLACE OF MODERN FOREIGN…

The beneficial aspects of introducing objectives for foreign language teaching based on functional or communicative principles are discussed. Functional objectives make the learner the center of interest and aid in the process of deciding what to include in a syllabus. Functional objectives offer more guidelines for the teacher in the classroom…

Standards for evaluating criterion-referenced tests are presented. Twenty-one standards, grouped in three categories, are discussed. Category one is defined as measurement properties and is comprised of conceptual validity, including description of the domain, test item agreement with objectives, and item representativeness of the objectives; and…

The problems encountered in restructuring teacher education programs to train regular teachers in special education skills to meet the needs of mainstreamed students are examined. It is concluded that there is an overlap in content in education courses and that many of the subjects already required, such as psychology, prepare teachers to cope…

This brief overview includes a rationale for the program and describes course goals and objectives, curriculum content, teaching methods and materials, staffing, and problems of integrating computer aided design with traditional architectural curricula at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at UCLA. A list of texts for use in teaching…

A complete set of behavioral objectives for first-year algebra taught in any of grades 8 through 12 is presented. Three to six sample test items and answers are provided for each objective. Objectives were determined by surveying the most used secondary school algebra textbooks. Fourteen major categories are included: (1) whole numbers--operations…

Sixty-three behavioral objectives and related test items for United States history in grades seven through nine are presented. Each sample contains the objective, sample test items and directions, and criteria for judging the adequacy of student responses. Fourteen of the 15 categories are content oriented and presented chronologically: (1)…

The relationship between decisions to change course content and resulting changes in teaching methods, students' performance assessment, departmental size and organization, and staff-student ratios is examined. Detailed discussions are provided on: Communication of course aims to staff and students, design of courses in which teaching methods and…

Two one-semester English courses, English 50.1 (English Fundamentals), concentrating on sentence construction, and English 50.2 (Basic Writing Skills), concentrating on paragraph development, were devised at Cerritos College (California) in an attempt to improve the effectiveness of the old English 50 (Grammar and Composition), which had combined…

This guide contains activities developed by experienced secondary school theatre teachers to fit the goals they set up for theatre education. The purpose of this volume is to demonstrate concepts in theatre that may be used for study in the art under varying circumstances. The material is designed to be a basis for action--starting points for…

The tentative course objectives presented in this publication are intended to specify as precisely as possible in behavioral terms the desired outcome of a particular population. Listed under each of the course titles are the performance objectives observable in the classroom and the long-range objectives often not immediately observable. For some…

The purpose of this consumer education module is to provide information and skills, and the ability to raise questions and find answers, while seeking the best automobile or motorcycle buy available for the money. The module may be used for a full or part semester course. The five sections (cars and the consumer, renting and leasing cars, cars and…

This course guide for business English and communication, divided into eight sections, focuses on the primary objective of the course: to develop the student's ability to communicate effectively in business. Section one is a guide to understanding communication in everyday life and oral and written communication in business. Section two outlines…