This study was conducted to determine whether or not elementary teachers are prepared to teach the metric system. The data show that scholars are neither well equipped nor staffed for the teaching of the metric system. (MP)

This study was conducted to determine the extent to which a sample of 51 Fortune 1000 firms perceive that legal impediments to metric conversion exist. The seven major findings were: (1) laws and regulations are not meaningful impediments to metric conversion, but certain ones must be considered in the planning process; (2) the laws of concern are…

The primary goal of the Metric Education Project was the systematic development of a replicable educational model to facilitate the system-wide conversion to the metric system during the next five to ten years. This document is an evaluation of that project. Three sets of statistical evidence exist to support the fact that the project has been…

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…

Presented is a report of a project designed to get teachers to use, make, and instruct from metric materials provided at three workshops conducted in their schools. Teacher and pupil tests were designed to provide a measure of program impact; however, this impact could not be accurately determined from the data collected. (MK)

Describes the design of an instrument to measure the attitudes of teachers toward metrication, and reports on its reliability and validity. (GA)

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…

The article describes the development of an instrument to measure attitudes toward the metric system. Particular attention was paid to the reliability coefficients obtained during several field tests of the instrument. (Author/MK)

The target population for this program was teachers, students, and community persons from seven public schools and one non-public school. It was designed to reach teachers, students, parents, and community members with the major focus on developing students' skills in using metric measurement. Teachers and lay people received their training in…

Sixth-grade students and teachers were tested to determine students' metric achievement and their teachers' attitudes toward metric instruction after seven years of regular classroom instruction. Results were somewhat disappointing. (MNS)

This study attempted to gather empirical evidence to guide educators in their teaching of linear measurement to primary school children. It attempted to answer the question "What modes of instruction are most effective for teaching linear measurement concepts to conservers and nonconservers of length?" (as defined by Jean Piaget), using a…

The purposes of this study were to determine if preservice elementary teachers' attitude toward the metric system can be improved by completing metric units of instruction embedded in a methods course, and to investigate relationships among three types of training, attitude, and learning. The sample was comprised of 126 students in an…

A measurement inventory was administered to 357 elementary school teachers in Virginia. Items with which they had the greatest and least difficulty are noted. The 36-item inventory is included. (MNS)

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…