Designed to assist community college instructors in the development of objectives for a course or program, this guidebook applies Bloom's Cognitive Taxonomy to the process of writing objectives. First, a short preface underscores the importance of instructional objectives in the design and delivery of education. Next, part I provides a pre-test on…

Teachers are provided with a model and general recommendations for efficient and effective instructional planning. The model, a map, begins with an identification of the major concepts, skills, and attitudes to be taught. A graphic route is then charted for logical planning towards achieving these instructional objectives. Nine…

This report begins with a response by the Minister of Education to the 1982 Alberta Task Force Report. He questioned two of the report's key recommendations: (1) increasing the provincial share of schooling costs to 85 percent and (2) removing provincial controls on school board supplementary requisitions. He asked the Task Force to reconvene and…

The Lifelong Learning Project was a 3-year effort launched in March 1980 to assist educational leaders in California, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, New York, and Ohio in their planning and coordination of adult learning services. These six states undertook a variety of project activities aimed at establishing and maintaining a participatory planning…

The logit methodology provides a unique way of examining input-output relationships for social systems where the principal output of the analysis is a probability of some action or state. (Author)

Deals with the need to build indices for monitoring planned programs of knowledge production and illustrates how the concepts and methods can be used to build taxonomies as analytical tools. (Author/IRT)

Ten dimensions of intergroup relations are postulated: identity consciousness, validating differences, advocacy-thinking, collaboration, coping with conflict, change orientation, risk-taking, directness with language, building personal credentials and creating adaptive structures. (Author/AM)

Examines contemporary models of undergraduate education, including their historical development and the reforms of the 1960's, asking whether the many social, political, and intellectual directions demand corresponding curricular responses or a new synthesis. Concludes that social complexity calls for emphasis on the aesthetic and intuitive as…

Evidence from an investigation of Australian adolescents in school is used to clarify the concept of alienation which has been used to describe students' attitude to school. Article further considered the role of the student and the role of the worker, the world of school and the world of work. (Editor/RK)

A Chicago inner-city high school that attempted "top-down" innovations without true teacher participation finds that little has changed, according to a teacher who has been case historian. (Author)

Discusses the report of the California Commission for the Reform of Intermediate and Secondary Education (RISE) and the preliminary plan of the implementation committee. (IRT)

Contending that when a college fails it is the governing board that holds final responsibility, the author points out the early warning signals and most frequent mistakes and lists eight rules for survival. Emphasis is on the need to consider more seriously the long-range consequences of decisions. (JT)

In this speech before the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers, the author argues that guidelines must not be taken at face value, for they are often deceptively simple. A hopeful sign for the future is the emergence of mathematics teachers who are involved in developing effective teaching strategies. (SD)

The author discusses the tradition of educational innovation and contemporary trends in the United States. Emphasis is placed on the innovation of alternating periods of classroom learning and paid work experience related to the student's field of study. The advantages of cooperative education to both the university and community are explored. (DE)