This book of selected readings was designed to include articles which give a clear picture of elementary science today and to familiarize preservice teachers with professional journals in education and the teaching of science. This third edition continues to be concerned not only with current thinking, practices, and research in elementary science…

The value orientations of 39 chemistry teachers and their 120 students were measured and compared to the theoretical, humanistic, and technological aspects of chemistry. A Chemistry Preference Evaluation Instrument containing alternative statements concerning these three aspects was administered to teachers and students. The reliability…

The purpose of this study was to use an information theoretic memory model to quantitatively investigate classification sorting and recall behaviors of various groups of students. The model provided theorems for the determination of information theoretic measures from which inferences concerning mental processing were made. The basic procedure…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether a process model could be constructed using steps identified from flow charts which accounted for somewhat more variance in predicting the difficulty of two-digit multiplication problems than did a process model developed by Cromer. Cromer's data and variables were used as a starting point. Ten new…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether a process model could be constructed using steps identified from flow charts which accounted for somewhat more variance in predicting the difficulty of two-digit multiplication problems than did a process model developed by Cromer. Cromer's data and variables were used as a starting point. Ten new…

Sixteen research reports related to mathematics education are abstracted and analyzed. The reports abstracted were selected from five educational journals, four psychological journals, a mathematics journal, and a book of readings. Eight of the articles are related to logical thinking, inference, proof, and problem solving. Three reports deal with…

This volume considers both the philosophical bases and the practical realities of individualization through the analysis of various approaches to the contract learning process. The first section serves as an introduction to contracting. Chapter 1 develops the concept of contract learning and attempts to set it in perspective within the larger…

This paper describes and discusses three studies concerned with the representation of children's knowledge as revealed in the ways that children, ages 5 to 17, perform a scientific induction task. A variant of Piaget's balance scale prediction problem was chosen as the experimental task; a formal model for different levels of children's knowledge…

Written for students and practitioners who are interested in the systematic development and evaluation of training programs, the document presents a framework for examining current efforts and establishing new instructional programs in education, business, and government environments. Part 1: Assessment and Evaluation, six chapters, presents an…

Reported is a study undertaken to examine the influence of objective statement specificity on student learning resulting from the independent laboratory-based Physical Science Investigation Program. The study involved three teachers and 138 eighth-grade Regents students from six intact classes. Each teacher taught one section using specific…

An educationally healthy community provides resident social groups with a body of learning that supports a balance between order and disorder. Educationally healthy individuals cannot live in isolation from some subgroup and the larger society, nor can a healthy larger society be isolated from different subgroups which accept some basic value…

This document is the first of three volumes presenting essays from three schools of thought regarding learning. Volume one consists of readings from psychologists, philosophers, and learning theorists concerning the view that the learner is a product primarily of environmental factors. The list of essays includes the following: (a) "Ideas and…

This study investigated the relationships among mathematics achievement scores of first graders, the order of presentation of difficult topics, the use of readiness activities, and scores on a conservation test. The study was developed and conducted in four phases. Phase 1 included analysis of 70 randomly selected first-graders' work on the…

The six experiments presented in these two manuals were designed for use in any introductory or advanced undergraduate psychology course either partially or totally concerned with human cognition. One manual serves as the teacher's accompaniment to the actual experiments detailed in the student's manual. A list of textbooks which might be…

This study has as its focus the science academic mean performance differences between senior high school pupils who have taken part in an outdoor educational center and those senior high school pupils who have not. An attempt was made to associate these differences with pupil participation in an outdoor educational center's offerings. A group of…