To understand the impact of all of the various science and mathematics improvement initiatives and to make them more effective in the future, it is important to be able to monitor the condition of science and mathematics education in the schools. This report presents a review of the information and data currently available; it is a preliminary…

This study investigated the predictive relationship between initial student attitudes, admissions test scores, years of high school math taken, and the student's subsequent achievement in introductory college chemistry. A group of 179 students who began as new freshmen during the same fall semester and took an introductory chemistry course during…