In other words, measure the gap between how a student or teacher initially thinks and acts upon entry to the system, and how they think and act once they have been programmed and conditioned by the system to meet the new state objectives. They are, rather, determiners of the ideal mode. Deviants are punished and conformers rewarded. Affective education provides a rationale for the behaviorist delivery. Because we act and behave according to our values and attitudes, behaviorists seek to change values and attitudes in order to control man's behavior by predisposing him to act according to such stimuli.
Conditioning is conditioning, regardless of the rationale.
You can request copies of your state's applications for ESEA Title III funding in 1969 and find the introduction of the same behavioral educational objectives to your state. These objectives provided the foundation for each state's transition to the new behavioral paradigm. Outcome Based Education is not dead, it never has been. The system IS outcome-based, and the outcomes are behavioral. The genealogy on this web site is done by an amateur who simply wishes to share the clues she has gathered with those also sifting through the past for clues to our heritage.