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Download full textKing, Irv – 1977
THE 4M COMPANY is an elementary school metric measurement program being developed in Hawaii. In previous years the K-4 portions of the program were pilot-tested; during the spring of 1977 the portions for grades 5 and 6 were pilot-tested with 932 students in 8 schools. Pretests, progress tests, and posttests were administered; pilot teachers…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Peer reviewedBilbo, Thomas E.; Milkent, Marlene M. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1978
Two instructional approaches and a control group were used in this study. Metric instruction in a college introductory physical science course was divided between: a) Approach A in which volume instruction followed that of length and area; b) Approach B in which volume was stressed but area was not introduced; and Approach C, the control (no…
Descriptors: College Science, Educational Research, Higher Education, Instruction
Peer reviewedHenry, Loren L.; Rowsey, Robert E. – Science Education, 1978
Compares the performance of three groups of students on two instruments developed to measure an understanding of: (1) metric relationships and (2) metric applications. It is concluded that participants are able to perform paper-pencil computation with metric units without being able to apply them. (HM)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Higher Education, Instruction, Knowledge Level
Peer reviewedBernoff, Joshua D.; Rowe, Mary Budd – Science and Children, 1978
Reported is a study designed to determine the effectiveness of two methods of teaching the metric system using only metric measurements and teaching students conversion procedures. (MR)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Grade 6
Butler, Thelma R. – 1978
A model for organizing an introductory in-service workshop for elementary school teachers in the basic fundamentals and contents of the metric system is presented. Data collected from various questionnaires and tests suggest that the program improved the teacher's performance in presenting the metric system and that this improvement had a positive…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students
Rowles, Thomas K. – 1978
This document is about a program that was proposed and initiated involving the teaching of the metric system using performance objectives for each level from first through sixth grade. A total of 45 performance objectives were used for the six grade levels. The goal for the program was to have students master 80% of the performance objectives as…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Kennedy, Keith – 1975
Using student ability, measured by grade point average and cognitive structure, as measured by the number of high school and college courses in science and mathematics, as predictor variables, the investigator attempted to determine the reliability of the use of advance organizers to enhance the retention of meaningful concepts. Students enrolled…
Descriptors: Achievement, Advance Organizers, Cognitive Measurement, College Science
