Included in the compendium are approximately 175 references to books, journal articles, instructional materials, filmstrips, or films concerned with encouraging affective development in gifted and other children. (DB)

To justify monetary support for physical education in our secondary schools, we must educate students to develop an understanding of the scientific basis of exercise and the importance of physical fitness for a quality lifestyle. (Author)

The affective domain, central to the learning process, cannot be ignored, regardless of difficulties involved in behavioral objective preparation and evaluation. A chart (available by mail) has been prepared to assist in the preparation and measurement of student behavior at levels of the affective doman defined by Krathwohl, et al. (DTT)

A case study of an 11-year-old boy with behavior problems illustrates the use of goal analysis in developing attainable objectives. (CL)

The NCATE Standards define dispositions (affect) as follows: "The values, commitments, and professional ethics that influence behaviors toward students, families, colleagues, and communities and affect student learning, motivation, and development as well as the educator's own professional growth." (p. 53, emphasis added), and even the…

Suggests that literature persuades by ethical proof; that orally presented literature involves up to six forms of ethos; that these forms may act to produce a considerable amount of dissonance; and that this dissonance should produce significant attitude change. (TO)

Author considers two recent trends in education, the first is that education must become more broadly humanizing and values must be taught in the schools, the second is that our instructional procedures must become far more objective in order to be effective. (Author/RK)

This study was an attempt to compare the effectiveness of affective learning in large group-small group combinations with conventional sized class groups of 50-60 students. (CK)

Sources of objectives in curriculum, descriptions, uses, and kinds of behavioral objectives are reviewed. Unique resolutions in each field of instruction are necessary with both cognitive and affective behaviors included in the design of a behavioral system in curriculum. (VW)

Briefly describes research stimulated by the McREL-BSCS document Inquiry Objectives in the Teaching of Biology." Mentions instruments and procedures for investigating patterns of inquiry, the interactions in an inquiring classroom, the assessment of affective objectives, and the indentification of teaching practices related to student…

Presents information that teachers need when undertaking affective assessment: why such assessment should be done, what should be assessed, what instruments are available, how to determine the quality of the instrument, and how to interpret scores. (Author/JM)

American schools traditionally have been expected to have a role in students' affective development by encouraging positive development and preventing undesirable development. (MM)

Focusing on subjectivity and objectivity in the experience of art, this article concentrates on the kind of knowing that the knowing of art is (thinking, feeling, conation, intuition) and on the aesthetic intuition which transforms this knowledge. Discusses implications for art education. (DB)

In response to Richard Morrill's essay on values education, the diversity of the verbs used to describe values education is discussed. Focus is on diversity in diagnoses and pedagogical goals as well as the range of strategies used by those who recognize the diversity. (Author/JMF)