This guide, focusing on participative management and the requirements of public decision-making in education, is designed as a management referent for the development and use of verifiable performance objectives. In addition to an indexed main section, the volume contains an anlysis matrix for educational objectives; formats for and examples of verifiable policy, program, curricular, and instructional objectives; and embryonic statements of verifiable instructional objectives for childcare and nursery schools, kindergartens, primary and intermediate schools, and junior and senior high schools. The work reported in this volume was performed under an ESEA Title III grant. (LLR)