TAXONOMY OF EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES The Classification of Educational Goals HANDBOOK II: AFFECTIVE DOMAIN

This Handbook is modeled in format after Handbook I: Cogni­ tive Domain. The reader will find that Part I describes the nature of the affective domain and the classification stfl,lcture prepared for it. Part II gives the classification structure in detail and de­ scribes the evaluation of affective objectives at each level of the structure. In Part I, Chapters land 2 give the background of the project and indicate how and why it came to be. Chapter 3 de­ scribes the basis of classification (internalization) and the nature of the classification structure, and relates internalization to terms common to the field. Chapter 4 analyzes the relation of the af­ fective to the cognitive domain. Chapter 5 describes how the affective-domain structure can be used to classify both objectives and test items, and it permits the reader to test himself on how well he can use the Taxonomy. Chapter 6 relates the affective domain to the contemporary views of curriculum, evaluation, and educational research and suggests some points for further exploration.