ABSTRACT
We intended the inventory of possible objectives to provide the bulk of the data concerning the perceptions held by the various groups of respondents on what constitutes a set of desirable objectives for a course in educational psychology for college students. However, we also considered it desirable to examine the context within which these choices were being made. Clearly if a hierarchy of choices were made within a general climate of overall rejection of the subject, the implications of any findings flowing from our investigation would be of a different sort of significance from those flowing from a climate of approval. The key group for the purposes of our objectives survey were the college tutors, but we did not include this group in our survey of attitudes for fairly obvious reasons: the most compelling one being that we considered that tutors would have a pronounced and abiding commitment for the subject and that to ask them to complete an attitude scale on the subject would not only have been supererogatory but would have been more than obliquely derogatory.
