Reviews some efforts in elementary school science made since the early 1960's, including the Elementary Science Study, Science-A Process Approach, and Science Curriculum Improvement Study projects. Suggests scientists from all levels of the educational and scientific community assist the implementation of these programs. (CC)

Elementary Science Study (ESS) materials provide ample opportunities for inquiry teaching in large number of content areas. List of some units is given with brief description of the scope of activities therein. (PS)

Discusses use of the modified Keller method to teach three semesters of physics courses to groups of 10-12 students. Indicates student performance is markedly improved on the final examinations. (CC)

Briefly describes the educational situation in the Philippines and the lack of materials available. Outlines the development of a national physics curriculum combining aspects of PSSC and HPP courses. Teacher training programs were developed to implement the curriculum. (TS)

Described is the BSCS Center for Education in Human and Medical Genetics, established to design, develop, and evaluate an instructional module in human genetics for high school students. This module will be a self-contained curricular program and will provide individualized open-ended experiences which present basic genetics content in the context…

Described is the elementary science curriculum "Children and Their Natural Environment" developed by the working group for Educational Research at the University of Gottingen. Objectives are listed as attempting to integrate a particular teaching concept with the scientific way of looking at problems and an attempt to understand teaching…

At the beginning of each year, teachers have the daunting task of deciding which concepts and skills to teach their students. Many teachers feel the pressure to teach "the whole book". This pressure comes in multiple forms. There is ever-increasing pressure to perform well on state, national, and international exams. An added pressure is the…

For more than 12 years, the Atlantic Science Curriculum Project (ASCP) has attempted to find a feasible path for educational reform in Canada. This search for a voluntary, regionally initiated path to educational reform was necessitated by the absence of substantial federal and provincial and private foundation sources of funding for science…

This study was designed to analyze the process of curriculum development adopted by developers in language arts, biology, and geography, in a centralized educational system. Specific objectives were to identify naturalistic models of curriculum development used in curriculum projects in Israel; point out relationships between contextual factors…

This report is the first of three volumes which summarize the results of a comprehensive evaluation of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Local Course Improvement (LOCI) program. Included are college teacher perceived needs of course improvement, profile of applicants for LOCI awards, appropriateness of program guidelines, and outcomes of LOCI…

This report is the second of three volumes describing the results of the evaluation of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Local Course Improvement (LOCI) program. This volume describes the quantitative results of the program. Evaluation of the LOCI program involved answering questions in the areas of the need for science course improvement as…

THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR IN IMPROVING EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT IS THE ANALYSIS AND SPECIFICATION OF EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES AND LEARNING OUTCOMES. THE DEFINITION OF INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES FOR THE CURRICULUM DESIGNER, TEACHER, AND STUDENT SERVES AS A GUIDE FOR ATTAINING GOALS. WHEN INFORMATION ABOUT STUDENT PERFORMANCE IS THE BASIS FOR CURRICULUM…

This publication presents fourteen research reports on new programs in high school biology and in particular the materials related to the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study. Teacher characteristics and behavior are reported in three of these papers. Three papers report on instructional materials, six on instructional procedures, and one deals…

Presented is the final report of the University of the Philippines evaluation of the summer science institutes and the implementation of science courses in secondary schools as components of the Science Education Project of the Philippines (SEPP). This evaluation of the SEPP science curriculum improvement project sought to assess student learning…

This project was an outgrowth of an earlier minipracticum which analyzed and evaluated the implementation of the Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS) in the elementary classrooms of the Jericho (New York) School District. Coinciding with the project, the author received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the purpose of…