Across a broad range of disciplines, research has found that inequity is systemic in the journal review process. Collectively, however, this study does not specifically examine racial inequity. Moreover, literature on the peer review process in science education, in particular, does not foreground equity as a subject of study. The present study…

This study is a two-iteration design-based research project that investigated how youths' science learning and socio-emotional attitudes toward science were influenced by a summer camp with a personal genetics approach. A multidisciplinary team developed a 2-week camp curriculum that included personal DNA tests, family genealogy projects, and…

This paper explores how people from low-income, minority ethnic groups perceive and experience exclusion from informal science education (ISE) institutions, such as museums and science centers. Drawing on qualitative data from four focus groups, 32 interviews, four accompanied visits to ISE institutions, and field notes, this paper presents an…

Showed that there were significant differences between adolescent, teacher, and parent attitudes toward marijuana, police, school, babies, teachers, and cigarettes in two seventh-grade Life Science classes. No significant differences were found between males and females on these topics. (MLH)

Discusses in detail the rationale and construction of an instrument entitled "Test on Scientific Attitudes," and includes a copy of the cognitive component subtest. (MLH)

Described is a study which replicates one conducted four years before in which data were collected on junior- and senior-high science teacher perceptions of their teaching skills and their school conditions. Results show that teachers' perceptions have become more favorable since the original study. (CS)

Reports the results of a study designed to test the hypothesis that successful engineering students would have more positive attitudes toward technology than non-engineering students. (JR)

Presents a discussion on the re-examination of the development of the scientific attitude as a general aim of science education. It is suggested that the assumption of this attitude in the professional behavior of successful scientists is questionable. (PB)

Reports the results of an investigation in which the attitudes of Israeli high school students to physics were studied in an attempt to identify variables that may account for the low enrollment in this subject. (JR)

Explores the patterns of responses of a population of high school students on an opinionnaire about energy-related matters. The sample consisted of 413 students, grades 10-12, in a school system in the southeastern United States. (HM)

The purpose of this investigation was to compare the effects of different teaching situations on the attitudes of sixth grade students toward science. Students working with materials in an inquiring way developed more positive attitudes than students who did not have that opportunity. (JR)

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)

Reports the results of a study designed to determine the attitudes of Oregon high school seniors toward a number of environmentally-oriented and science-related social issues. Attitudinal comparisons are made between students with respect to the amount of science they had taken in high school (grades 10-12), their school environment, and their…