Functional relationships among domains of learning and a process of diagramming relationships between instructionally significant behaviors are discussed. (RAO)

Evaluation of curricular content with behavioral objectives is suggested as a means of making physical education programs accountable. (GW)

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…

Facility planning and curriculum design, key ingredients of effective schooling, should complement one another. The open-classroom concept failed because of poor coordination between facility design and instructional practice. Aesthetic qualities of learning environments express certain values and affect teacher energy and student creativity.…

Describes the family life education program developed for the North Medford (OR) High School. (JOW)

Describes the three phase plan a psychology department used to revise its curriculum. The plan involved: (1) collecting data on educational expectations of faculty, students, and peer institutions; (3) developing a structural model of the major; and (3) re-designing courses to fit the new program. (GEA)

As educational policy studies have multiplied, Illinois State University's (ISU) Educational Administration and Foundations Department developed a new series of policy studies grounded in historical and philosophical methodology. Content of one course is described, and benefits of the ISU model are discussed. (MT)

Going back to the late 1800s, this article characterizes the various attempts which have been made to establish a social studies scope and sequence for public schools in the United States. The article concludes by listing six categories of individuals who will continue to try to change the prevailing scope and sequence model. (JDH)

Elaborates on an instructional organization method for purposeful learning experiences within the social studies curriculum through compilation of varied learning activities built around a central topic. Provides a recommended outline including objectives, motivational activities, learning activities, evaluation techniques, and bibliography. (TRS)

The authors examine the literacy curriculum of special education classes in the context of how literacy operates in the real world. A junior high school special education class is described as a way of raising basic issues as to the nature of special education literacy curriculum. (MT)

Describes an approach to program evaluation that is for the people within a school and that is intended to be done by them and for their purposes. (FL)

Describes the development and testing of an environmental education curriculum model. The model, successfully used with secondary students (ages 14-16), is structured around a set of five key questions which are amplified to fit the topic and circumstances in which they are applied. (Author/JN)

Demographic characteristics and instructional practices are reported for 73 public school drug education teachers. (GW)

Considers the controversy between the pro-liberal arts and journalism/public relations advocates over the design of a public relations curriculum. (See CS 710 195) (RB)