The
1930s: Behavioral Objectives and
Formative Evaluation
IMPORTANT
IDEAS
- The Great Depression reduced
funds for educational research
- The Progressive Movement
in education advocated student-initiated activites
REALIZED INNOVATIONS:
- Refined the procedures
for writing instructional objectives
- Ralph Tyler coined the
term "behavioral objectives" referring to objectives that are written in terms
of desired student behaviors
- By repeatedly assessing
objectives, Tyler set up the first "formative evaluation" to refine new curricula
until it was successful
INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE:
Ralph Tyler
- Worked for Bureau of Educational
research to study revising the current national high school curricula. His
Eight Year Study, which began in 1933, studied specific high schools to see
if their alternative curricula would allow students to succeed in college.
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