In preparing this second edition, a fresh look was taken at literature describing practices and concepts relating to theory development in behavioral disciplines related to education for cues leading to a discussion of curriculum theory. In the belief that curriculum theory must be a subtheory of educational theory, the broad field of education…

Common approaches to ordering the curriculum content of a scholastic discipline include a hierarchical structuring of the discipline's major concepts and a view of inquiry as learners solving problems. Other approaches include logical prerequisite, concept inclusion, generalization, concept interrelationship, chronology, and subject matter.…

Project ENRICH was conceived in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, to: (1) identify preschool children with learning disabilities, and (2) to develop a program geared to the remediation of the learning disabilities within a school year, while allowing the child to be enrolled in a regular class situation for the following school year. Through…

An alternative to the traditional Ph.D. program in English is a master's degree program designed specifically for junior college English instructors. The existing master's program at Illinois State University, which includes courses in psychology, speech, sociology, education, and a teaching internship of at least one semester in a community…

Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) depends upon a structured curriculum made up of sequences of behavioral objectives which the student must master in moving from one level of ability to some subsequent higher level. The curriculum designer has the responsibility of specifying, with varying degrees of exactness, how the typical pupil would…

Most of the literature on the instructional effects of operationally defining the objectives of a curriculum before implementation has been based on a logical, rather than an empirical, analysis of the instructional process. A model procedure was developed and used to examine empirically the contribution of the cognitive objectives of an…

The Colorado College Plan was designed to reconstitute the academic calendar so that student and faculty time would be used more productively. Courses are offered one at a time, rather than simultaneously, in nine blocks, each 3 1/2 weeks in length. The fall semester encompasses four of these blocks and the spring semester contains five. Each…

System analysis is defined as a point of view as well as a set of procedures that enable decisionmakers and developers to examine approaches to social or educational problems. A list of various procedures and methods for a systematic approach to educational problems is provided. The development of a plan for a new school is described and the…

The research described in this document investigated the feasibility of matching teachers with their preferred style of teaching. Ninety teachers working with sixth-grade students were randomly assigned to either a highly structured or a low-structured curriculum. Teaching effectiveness (judged by student achievement) was compared in three…

This report contains the text of addresses given at a seminar on the status and development of the teaching of secondary school chemistry held in 1960 by the Organization for European Economic Development (now the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development). The speakers considered advances in theoretical chemistry since 1900, the…

Preliminary tryouts of the multimedia, individualized course in economic analysis prepared for the United States Naval Academy were conducted. An illustration of how the data collected was used for making decisions on materials revisions is also included. Related documents appear as EM 010 787 through EM 010 823. The final evaluation report can be…

The results of the tryouts of the multimedia, individualized course in economic analysis are reported. Findings discussed include number of objectives learned, mean time required, and the percentage of students attaining various goals. Related documents are EM 010 787 through EM 010 823. The final evaluation report can be found under ED 043 790,…

Reviewed was a 4 year project in which factors influencing learning in the mentally retarded were investigated by means of comparative studies on guided or prompted learning (P) and confirmation or trial and error learning (C). Previous research on P and C was summarized briefly. Examined were seven paradigmatic studies from the project which…

Presented are guidelines for curriculum design and development for mentally handicapped children and youth. The diagrammatic introduction to the framework for curriculum development covers persisting problems of daily living, yearly scopes of investigations, and developmental organization of persisting problems. Practical guidelines on organizing…

This report describes the development of an organic curriculum in the public schools of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Superintendents of 13 school districts met with members of the U. S. Office of Education in May 1967 to establish the initial network of the curriculum overhaul program entitled Educational Systems for the Seventies (ES'70). This…