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Peer reviewedJungwirth, E. – Australian Science Teachers Journal, 1971
Descriptors: Biology, Classification, Educational Research, Evaluation
Peer reviewedTamir, P.; Jungwirth, E. – Science Education, 1972
There are differences between experienced BSCS biology teachers and those beginning to use BSCS, with respect to the ranking of objectives in order of importance and in the estimation of the ease of achieving the objectives. There is a disparity between the teachers' priorities and their expectations of achieving the objectives. (AL)
Descriptors: Biology, Curriculum Development, Educational Research, Expectation
Peer reviewedTamir, P.; Jungwirth, E. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1975
A battery of tests was administered to three groups of high school students who studied the Israel Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) Adaptation Program for several years. Compared with non-BSCS students, the progress of the BSCS students in biological knowledge, inquiry skills, and understanding of science demonstrates the feasibility of…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Research, Science Course Improvement Projects
Peer reviewedTamir, Pinchas – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1976
Achievement scores of Israeli high school students using Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) materials were shown to be significantly higher than those for students using another curriculum. (MLH)
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Curriculum, Educational Research, Instruction
Download full textTamir, Pinchas – 1974
Reported is a study to determine the attitudes of Israeli high school biology teachers to the Israeli adaptation of the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) curriculum. Blankenship's Attitude Inventory, designed to determine teachers' reactions to BSCS materials, was translated into Hebrew. Copies were mailed to 200 high schools in Israel.…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Biology, Educational Research, Science Course Improvement Projects
Peretz, Miriam Ben; Tamir, Pinchas – 1984
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…
Descriptors: Biology, Curriculum Development, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedTamir, Pinchas – School Science and Mathematics, 1979
Studies the scientific curiosity and inquiry of 226 high school students from grades 10 to 12 who were studying the Israeli adaptation of the Biological Science Curriculum Studies (BSCS) program in eleven different schools representing city and Kibbutz Schools in Israel. (HM)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Biology, Cognitive Development, Curiosity
Tamir, P. – 1975
This curriculum evaluation study involved a group of 989 twelfth-grade students who participated in a given curriculum for four years. Effects of interaction between curriculum and such variables as teachers' bias, type of school, sex of student, and specific subject matter taught as related to achievement were sought. Schools included city…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biology, Curriculum, Curriculum Evaluation
