This issue of "Investigations in Science Education" (ISE) provides analytical abstracts, prepared by science educators, of research reports in the area of student attitudes toward the high school science laboratory, environmental problems, science instructional procedures, and science classes; and teacher attitudes in a preservice institute setting and toward elementary school science curricula. Each abstract includes bibliographical data, research design and procedure, purpose, research rationale, and an abstractor's analysis of the research. (CS)