A book designed to instruct teachers in how to develop favorable attitudes toward learning in their students is reviewed. (DB)

Career assessments are important tools for learning and development. They can identify problems, suggest alternatives, and stimulate action. Assessments such as 360-degree feedback provide a way to promote learning and track employee progress. (SK)

The paper describes the integration of web resources and technology as instructional and learning tools in oral history projects. The computer-mediated oral history project centred around interviews with community elders combined with new technologies to engage students in authentic historical inquiry. The study examined learners' affective…

Increasingly, helpers are asked to counsel the dying and their relatives. The research and other literature are reviewed for information and ideas that might be helpful to a counselor; for example, research and speculation about fears of death are examined. While an awareness of such information may reassure the counselor who tries to counsel in…

Evaluation has two clear and distinct segments. Evaluation in cognition applies to the constant reevaluation of the internal processes of the organization. Evaluation is also a system of valuing those things with which the organization is primarily concerned. Therefore, the broad area of evaluation is both the self-evaluation of the processes of…

This booklet presents guidelines and procedures to facilitate the development and writing of performance objectives at different levels of specificity. Chapter 1 contains a brief review of performance objectives. Chapter 2 reviews behavioral variables under the three headings of cognitive variables, affective variables, and psychomotor variables.…

The taxonomy adopted for use with projects operating under the auspices of the Florida Educational Research and Development Program embodies five primary categories: motor skills, verbal information, intellectual skills, cognitive strategies, and attitudes. Performance objectives are classified in terms of the learning process required for the…

Learners may more readily achieve in the attitudinal dimension if mathematics teachers employ the following criteria: meaningful learning activities; interesting experiences in the school class setting; and purposeful as well as useful activities. (Author/JC)

Physical educators cannot continue to list as goals everything that physical activity instruction might possibly contribute to students' lives. The affective domain has been additionally burdened by the long-standing assumption that affective benefits are the automatic result of instruction in other domains. The need to clarify the workings of the…

The author predicts that the affective movement in education will subside because the proponents of the movement have failed to develop curricula and other materials for potential practitioners outside the movement. (HD)

The authors explore the acceptance of Bloom's Taxonomies -- both affective and cognitive.... They relate the two and suggest learning paths" incorporating classifications from both Taxonomies. (Editor)

Recognition by teachers of the qualitative nonverbal and verbal dimensions of communication should enhance their ability to relate to all students. (Author)

Teachers who attempt to make their courses meaningful to their students will communicate better with them. (CK)