Reports an investigation into the relationship between student attitudes and teacher characteristics. Instructional and student variables are reported as insignificant predictors of changes in attitudes. Significant relationships exist between attitude outcome change and one of the teacher, instruction-student or instruction-teacher variables.…

Describes improvements and extensions made to a battery of the five attitude scales for science teaching to form a seven-scale Test of Science-Related Attitudes (TOSRA). (GA)

Compares 1,547 aims of science education culled from the literature to the 33 aims of the Australian Science Education Project (ASEP). Places aims into 11 categories, then calculates proportion of total aims fafalling into each category. Rank correlation of literature aims and ASEP aims was 0.90. (MLH)

Explores the relationship between a set of science-related attitudinal outcomes and student perceptions of the classroom learning environment. The attitudinal outcomes investigated were student attitude to four sources of information: experiments, experts, books, and teachers. (Author/GA)

From a set of history of mathematics materials, a play and an article were selected for evaluation through opinions of experts, survey of teachers, and changes in students' affective and cognitive outcomes. (MP)

Relationships between socioeconomic status and proficiency at enquiry skills important in science education are explored. The relationships are found to be sufficiently strong to cause concern among science teachers. It is noted enquiry skills can be taught and suggests that teachers do so for pupils with low proficiency. (MP)

Forty-six seventh grade science classes in Australia were tested before and after using Australian Science Education Project (ASEP) curriculum units. Significant improvements were found for 15 of 17 educational objectives related to inquiry skills and attitudes. (MLH)

A comparison of three exemplary teachers and colleagues from the same schools found that the exemplary teachers used effective classroom management strategies, a range of whole-class, small-group, and seatwork activities, kept students on task, and monitored student understanding of content, in contrast to their colleagues. (Author/MSE)

Ten Australian seventh-grade classes using Australian Science Education Project (ASEP) materials and ten control classes were administered the Science Class Inventory to determine classroom climate. results showed that the ASEP students underwent more favorable changes in their enjoyment of science classes. (MLH)

A questionnaire survey was used to gauge the opinions of mathematics teachers about some history of mathematics materials recently developed for use in the classroom. Teachers' opinions of the materials were generally favorable, but a sizeable proportion responded that they would not use the material in their own teaching. (Author/MN)

Reports on the adaptation of a scale previously used to measure attitude toward the social implications of science among college students for use with secondary students. Upon use with seventh graders, scores obtained on the social implications scale correlated significantly with pupil socioeconomic status and with a number of learning environment…

Evaluative information was collected about a history of mathematics project consisting of a play about Thales and an article about the history of conics. Methods included obtaining unstructured opinions of five experts, questionnaire responses from 39 teachers, and results of a test of affective and cognitive outcomes of 117 students. (CTM)

Uses a sample of 34 beginning secondary school teachers in Australia to obtain data on their perceptions of the relationship between five dimensions of school environment (affiliation, professional interest, achievement orientation, formalization, and innovativeness) and five dimensions of classroom environment (personalization, participation,…

This book provides a retrospective account of the processes of curriculum development and evaluation of the Australian Science Education Project (ASEP), a venture which pioneered large-scale State-Commonwealth cooperation in education in Australia. The processes are described to identify practices for future curriculum initiatives. Important…

Examined were sex differences and the role of socioeconomic status in science achievement in Western Australian coeducational and single-sex schools. The influence of independent schools, both single-sex and coeducational, was found to be a factor that improved student science achievement for both boys and girls. (CW)