Performance Based Instruction Curriculum Development in Vocational Education. The State-of-the-Art.

Overview & Synopsis

This review, based on a variety of information sources, discusses vocational education under the following major headings: Forces Contributing to Curriculum Change in Vocational Education (summarizes four of the major elements which seem to be contributing to rapid change in vocational education--knowledge explosion, rise of technology, change in the structure of thinking induced by cybernetics, and rise of the concept of accountability--and describes some major research efforts in developing curricula to cope with change); The Concept of Curriculum Responds to Change (discusses the variety of meanings for the term "curriculum" and factors contributing to the alteration of curriculum theory); The Development of Performance/Competency Based Education; Performance Based Education in Alabama; Related Research Assisting Performance Based Teacher Education Development in Alabama; Performance Based Certification for Educational Personnel Research Projects in Curriculum Development in Vocational Education (describes the Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States (V-TECS) and Developing Educational Learning through Task Analysis (DELTA), and their activities); The Development of the National Network for Curriculum Coordination in Vocational-Technical Education; Career Education and Curriculum Development; Educational Planning--The 1202 Commission (discusses the activities and duties of this Alabama commission, established as a result of Congress request that a State commission be formed to administer the various provisions of P.L. 92-318, title XII, section 1202, Education Amendments of 1972); Placement for Accountability; Accountability; Accountability--An Examination of One Plan (examines Michigan's Accountability Model); Curricula in Vocational Education--Alabama State Department of Education; and Implications of the State-of-the-Art. (SH)