Summaries of classroom research studies conducted in Finland on the development of educational aims are presented. Papers in this document deal with: (1) an overview of the purposes of the research project; (2) cognitive processes in classroom verbal interaction; (3) taxonomy of physical education; (4) objectives of religious education; (5) teacher evaluations of the importance and realizability of goals in home economics instruction; (6) the qualitative need for education in forest examinations; (7) objectives in foreign language (English) instruction; (8) objectives of mathematics teaching; (9) objectives of music teaching in secondary schools; (10) aims of visual art education; (11) background of the teaching of history; and (12) aims of biological and geographical education. The findings and research strategies are compared and analyzed in a concluding summary. (FG)