This paper presents the procedures, results and conclusions of a study designed to determine whether three different methodological approaches to the laboratory for a general education physical science course would lead to the same behavioral outcomes. Students enrolled in the physical science course were randomized into one of three laboratory…

To compare the relative achievement levels of groups of individuals, pairs, and trios working at electronics technology laboratory stations, an experimental study was designed using three intact classes totaling 96 laboratory students in an undergraduate electricity/electronics course. One group of students worked the 12 laboratory experiments as…

Explains philosophy of the Higher Order Thinking Skills Project, which utilizes microcomputers in a learning laboratory to develop in upper elementary school students the thinking ability needed to construct sophisticated associations between ideas; describes curriculum used to teach these skills; and reviews software and hardware utilized and…