Reported is a study having several major purposes. Among these were (1) to investigate the change in "understanding the nature of science" as shown by high school students studying physics-astronomy at a summer science institute and (2) to compare the level of understanding possessed by the summer science group with normative secondary…

Describes procedures, results, and conclusions of a study designed to evaluate the success achieved in an experimental secondary school course aimed at fostering scientific literacy. The pretest-posttest control group design with matching was used. Results indicated that pretreatment-posttreatment growth score differences between the comparison…

This study was designed to evaluate the success of an experimental secondary school course for fostering scientific literacy and the development of scientific attitudes. Students were matched using I.Q., sex, grade level, involvement with formal science courses, and cumulative grade point average. Twenty-one "self selected" eleventh and…