Instruction Objectives in Accounting.

Abstract There appears to be no lessening of the pressures exerted upon the state institutions of higher learning nor any abatement of the controversies created by the dual commitment to mass education and to maintaining standards that assure quality education. One approach is to give increased attention to perhaps the most important area of education, that of instruction. The research group of college and university examiners responsible for this handbook are primarily concerned with the formulation and articulation of course objectives which they feel are among the fundamentals that determine the quality of instruction in any given course and, by implication, the quality of knowledge and intellectual abilities and skills with which a student comes out of any specific classroom experience. The authors of this handbook contend that since instructors ought to be concerned with changes produced in students as a result of educational experiences, instructional objectives should be based upon intended student behaviors.