This paper describes a curriculum design model to train research and development personnel under USOE-NIE funding. This design model, called PIC (Process Individualization Curriculum), was chosen for coverting on-campus courses to extra-mural self-instructional courses. The curriculum specialists who work with professors to individualize their…

This conference record is organized according to the kinds of sessions that were held: general sessions, which include the keynote speech and the banquet speech; discussion groups, which were divided according to four topics--priorities, processes, products, and problems; the French group; and the annual banquet and business session. An appendix…

This curricular guide, designed for grades one through six, was prepared by a writing committee from the Rock Hill, South Carolina, public schools. Five major themes (living things, the earth, matter and energy, the universe, the human body) provide continuity and direction for the elementary school science program. The guide contains a list of…

This study investigated the status of the humanities in the Colorado public school curriculum. Four types of humanities programs were studied: (1) courses specifically designed as humanities courses, (2) humanities-type courses incorporated into a regular single subject course, (3) specially selected humanities experiences designed for a…

The development of the first segment of instruction of the multimedia, individualized course in economics analysis prepared for the United States Naval Academy is described in detail in this document. The development moves from behavioral objectives through criterion test items, instructional events, and media selection, to a continuity format and…

The purposes of this paper are a) to present tentative statements based upon a synthesis of the research in the area of interdisciplinary education, b) to present some implications for professional behavior based upon these tentative statements, and c) to present some testable questions which need to be researched in order to solidify or modify…

Several aspects of the curriculum problem are considered here. The first, Scope of Population Study, attempts to provide a general delimitation of the field by identifying overlapping and related areas of study. A second aspect, Goals of Population Study, identifies three general goals: 1) development of an understanding of the significance of…

This report describes organic curriculum development, the redefinition of goals, and the overhaul of the educational process in the public schools of Quincy, Massachusetts. Superintendent of 15 school districts met in Florida in May 1967 to establish the initial network of the program entitled Educational System for the Seventies (ES '70). The…

The author shows that developments within curriculum have distinct analogues within various branches of the humanities and describes how an acquaintance with events in some of these branches may be most useful in a critical appraisal of the curriculum field itself. (Author/RM)

Teachers, professional health educators, curriculum specialists, and representatives of community health agencies working as a team can produce an effective school health program and develop a sound school health curriculum. (JD)

Describes a program--"Academic Expectations and the Fourth R: Responsibility"--and its major elements. Outlines nine principles on which it is based and how it has affected students. (RK)

Suggestions are given for people working on a summer curriculum writing team. (SK)

The author describes a Pennsylvania State University seminar on the modern international Olympic movement and includes bibliographies for several sections of the course. (GW)

Decision model for instructional and curriculum design. (DAG)