Discusses how changes to a curriculum can be successfully implemented. Phase I begins with the development of a curriculum plan; Phase II involves modifications to meet the needs of a given community. Illustrative of support strategy, the successful CATIJ technique used in West Virginia to identify key functionaries and reveal the communications…

A number of taxonomies of educational objectives are described, including: (1) cognitive taxonomies by Bloom, Guilford, Gagne and Merrill, Gerlach and Sullivan, and DeBlock; (2) affective taxonomies by Karthwohl and Raven; (3) psychomotor taxonomies by Ragsdale, Simpson, and Harrow; and (4) D'Hainaut's integration of the other models. (GDC)

The author analyzes the Joint Council on Economic Education economics curriculum in terms of a framework developed by Klein, Tye, and Goodlad (1975), and points to a wide disparity between the ideal or formal curriculum and what actually goes on in the classroom. (Editor)

Describes the advantages of the small school-within-a-school plan for students having difficulty growing in an ordinary large secondary school. Uses the example of Santa Maria High School in California and how it gives students an opportunity to study a curriculum suitable for their future expectations. (RK)

The SIU School of Medicine has completed a five-year experience applying an objectives-based approach to an entire curriculum. This paper describes the instructional system and the procedures for monitoring, maintaining, and improving it and provides available outcome data. (Author/LBH)

This paper, prepared for the APA Division 17 Symposia on Developmental Psychology, Chicago, 1975, describes a primary prevention curriculum model to: (a) relate curriculum intervention to concepts from cognitive-developmental theory; (b) describe phases of the curriculum; (c) present evaluation and methodology; and (d) summarize results of the…

This paper argues the need for curricula for women's growth, highlights the experimental curriculum, content and process, summarizes the data on the pre, post, and longitudinal measures of ego and moral maturity, and presents implications of curricula for women's growth. Prepared for the American Psychological Association, Chicago, 1975. (Author)

Investigates the effect of technical progress on educational reform in France. Factors considered include the lengthening of compulsory schooling, introduction of guidance and counseling facilities, vocational education reforms, and introduction of technology as a subject in the secondary school curriculum. (Author/DB)

Briefly examines a junior high school correspondence course in social studies. Ten specific skills were introduced at a fairly simple level in the first ten lessons and then repeated at a more complex level in the remaining lessons. Four examples of the skill development components are given. (Author/JK)

An exploratory study addressed two problems: (1) Can basic concepts or clusters of issues and problems be identified in the field of psychology as it is currently taught to undergraduates? (2) What influences a teacher's selection and coverage of specific items? (Author/AV)

The appropriateness of the Part I examination of the National Board of Medical Examiners to evaluate second-year curricular performance of students at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine was examined. The school used the results in making policy-changing decisions. (Author/LBH)

The University of California at Los Angeles has initiated an interdisciplinary doctoral program in Environmental Science and Engineering (ESE). It includes an academic program encompassing courses in earth sciences, biology, engineering, chemistry, and the social sciences, as well as a 1 1/2-2 year off-campus internship. (LBH)

Summarizes curriculum guidelines for the following engineering technologies: chemical, industrial, mining, petroleum, nuclear, civil, mechanical, electrical, automotive, and manufacturing. In a few years, these Engineering Council for Professional Development committee guidelines are intended to become the criteria by which programs will be judged…

The principle for unification around which a minimal, necessary consensus could be mustered among various constituencies in public education is to include in every curriculum a strand of instruction designed to prepare pupils for enlightened citizenship in a modern, democratic society. (Author/MJB)

Advocates a multidisciplinary approach to marine studies in which the sciences act as the core and the humanities as supplementary curricula. (CP)