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Glass, Lynn W.; Yager, Robert E. – Amer Biol Teacher, 1970
Students who solved problems individually or in small informal groups understand science and scientists better than those who solved the same problems (based on BSCS Blue Version) as a class group. (AA)
Descriptors: Biology, Individualized Instruction, Instruction, Problem Solving
Inventasch, Harvey – 1968
This study measured the effects of teacher-directed and self-directed problem solving techniques on junior high school students' expressed attitudes about science and scientists, their achievement of understandings of science facts and principles, and the rate at which they mastered understandings of the conceptualizations of science necessary to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 7, Instruction
Thomas, Barbara Schalk – 1968
Studied was the effect of instructional method on educational outcomes in an interdisciplinary science uni t taught to 143 eighth grade students of earth science. Compared were the didactic and guided discovery methods of teaching. Also analyzed were the interactions of methods with student characteristics including sex, intelligence, creativity,…
Descriptors: Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Critical Thinking, Deduction
