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Lerch, Robert Donald – 1971
Students enrolled in the introductory physics laboratory at New Mexico State University participated in this study. A stated set of objectives, developed by Dr. John M. Fowler of the Commission on College Physics, was used in the laboratory. This study attempted to measure student achievement based on the use of these objectives as opposed to the…
Descriptors: College Science, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Objectives, Educational Research
Improving Student Concern for Safety in a Production Technology Lab through the Use of Teambuilding.
Download full textLacina, Dale Robert – 2002
The effectiveness of team building as a strategy for improving students' concern for safety in a production technology laboratory was examined in a study involving a group of grade 9 and 10 production technology students from an urban, lower-middle-class community in western Illinois. Students' safety test scores, teacher checklists, and…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Check Lists, Cooperative Learning, Educational Strategies
Pigford, Valma Darleen – 1974
Two methods of instructing preservice elementary teachers in the metric system are compared in this study. In the laboratory method 28 subjects handled equipment and participated in measurement and estimation activities. The 29 subjects in the lecture demonstration group met as a class and individually recorded results of the same activities…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary School Mathematics, Higher Education, Instruction
Costa, Joseph J. – 1973
The purpose of the study was to determine if three treatment programs of varying degrees of abstractness would produce similar effects on first year college students. One hundred four students participated in the study. All had completed, at minimum, a one-year high school chemistry course. Treatment was restricted to the laboratory portion of a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Chemistry, College Science, Doctoral Dissertations
Simpson, Clifford James – 1973
This study was designed to compare the effects of the traditional teacher-centered mathematics classroom with that of a laboratory-based program, on achievement and attitudes of low-achieving seventh graders. Five teachers and 87 pupils participated in the study for 101 days. Mental ability was measured by the SRA Primary Mental Abilities Test,…
Descriptors: Achievement, Attitudes, Doctoral Dissertations, Experiential Learning
Kaiser, Virginia Ruth Stone – 1974
This study provides a systematic observation and assessment of pupil-teacher behaviors in a mathematics laboratory for underachieving innercity junior high school students. Using the Observational System for Instructional Analysis (OSIA), the author recorded and analyzed 125 mathematics laboratory activity sessions. Five students, selected from a…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Curriculum, Experiential Learning, Laboratories
Davison, David Malcolm – 1974
A part of a methods program consisting of lectures, demonstrations, laboratories, and practical applications, preservice mathematics teachers examined the role of activity methods, including use of computers, in secondary-school mathematics instruction. They were then expected to apply this knowledge as student teachers. Data collected to evaluate…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Doctoral Dissertations, Experiential Learning, Higher Education
