A general overview of the appropriate role of behavioral objectives in curriculum decisions. (HB)

Author contends that an unsubtle use of behavioral objectives tends to impede the process of considering a child's natural cognitive development by focusing attention on someone else's task analysis and not on the development of the child's ideas. (Author)

Author states that subjecting all English teachers to a flattening, homogenizing planning methodology, merely sets up restricted channels for thinking, trivializing the work of able teachers and sanctifying the ineptitude of weak ones. Routinized response to formula drives out real thinking, real planning. (Author)

In this article, an appeal is made for the development and acceptance of mathematics curricula that express the humanistic viewpoint. (Author)

Author looks at how technology has affected mathematics instruction and argues that fundamental concepts should be emphasized over arithmetical skills because of computers. (HB)

Author distinguishes between a broad education from training for specific skills in teacher education and argues that skill learning is appropriately done on the job. (HB)

A look at one method of analyzing the percentage of time spent in various activities and functions as one example of how teachers and other educational personnel might examine the processes and experiences of the classroom to get some indication of what learning outcomes are being fostered. (Author)

An overview of the development of protocol materials, with specific examples from the Utah State University Protocol Project, which concentrates on concepts of teacher language. (Author/HB)

A parody on the way instructional programs are organized without common standards or criteria, concluding that education needs better research. (HB)

Author delineates the elements of an instructional program which is implementable and subject to evaluation. (Author/HB)

Author presents a new model required for research into the effectiveness of instructional programs. The model calls for research which employs the modern technology of instructional program design to achieve relevancy for decision-makers. (Author/HB)

A look at how developing countries, specifically Korea, are beginning to look to educational technology as a partial solution to their educational problems. (Author)

A discussion of synthesized behavioral objectives (SYNOB), which is a record or form for communicating a variety of alternatives within a specific behavioral objective. (Author/HB)

The emergence of wide-spread interest in computer managed instruction systems brought a course in the design of software systems. The resulting course Hardware/Software Systems for Instructional Use'' is described. (Author/HB)

The process of diagnosis in education is basically a process of needs assessment and of finding ways of meeting the needs of the learner thus identified. The model described suggests that the basis for this process is three elements: (a) the needs of the students; (b) structure of the learning program; (c) placement data regarding the individual…