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Read, Floyd M. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1971
There were no differences in the understanding of physical optics and ability to solve physical optics problems after instruction or on a delayed test between students with or without prior instruction in wave motion. (AL)
Descriptors: Achievement, College Science, Instruction, Optics

Riban, David M. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1971
Presents the procedures, results, and conclusions of a study designed to see if mathematical deficiencies can be inferred from PSSC students' performance by using a hierarchical model of requisite skills. Assuming inferences were possible, remediation was given. No effect due to remediation was observed but analysis indicated incidental learning…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Instruction, Mathematics, Physics

Spears, Jacqueline; Zollman, Dean – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1977
College physics students' understanding of the process of science, as measured by the Science Process Inventory, was better for students in a traditional, structured laboratory than in an inquiry laboratory that covered the same experiments. (MLH)
Descriptors: College Science, Educational Research, Higher Education, Inquiry

Ott, Mary Diederich; Macklin, David B. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1975
This study investigated interactions between student traits and treatments. Engineering and physics majors were enrolled in either a lecture-recitation-laboratory section, or an audio-tutorial section of an introductory physics course. No significant differences were found between the two groups, but an interaction was found between two traits…
Descriptors: College Science, Educational Research, Higher Education, Instruction

Osborne, Roger – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1978
Analyzes using path analysis models, student attainment of the objectives of a first year university physics course. Four aspects of physics attainment are identified: (1) theoretical; (2) applied; (3) experimental; and (4) attitudinal objectives. (HM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitudes, College Science, Course Objectives

Woodman, Charles A. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1972
Students whose Physical Science Study Committee (PSSC) physics course was supplemented with the PSSC films did not achieve significantly higher scores on the PSSC Achievement Test or the Test on Understanding Science than students who did not see the films, when intelligence and science background were used as covariates. (AL)
Descriptors: Achievement, Instruction, Instructional Films, Physics

Beeson, Geoffrey W. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1977
Describes a validation study in which tenth-grade students received instruction on electric circuits using a learning hierarchy of concepts constructed from a task analysis procedure. (MLH)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Electric Circuits, Evaluation, Instruction

Ivany, J. W. George; Oguntonade, Christopher B. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1972
Study compared patterns of teachers' verbal explanations of physics problems with patterns of scientific explanations evident in philosophical literature. Fourteen high school physics teachers were observed in micro-teaching situations and all verbal utterances analyzed. Results showed that constructs and lecturing are the most frequently used…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Educational Research, Instruction, Physics

Peterson, Kenneth D. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1978
Fifty-nine secondary school physics students were assigned to treatment groups: (1) Project Physics units, (2) Project Physics and verbal learning unit, and (3) a training program in scientific inquiry. Posttest results revealed that, on most aspects of a science inquiry test, treatments 2 and 3 had significantly greater effect on achievement than…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Inquiry, Instruction, Physics