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Druger, Marvin; Borgstede, William R. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1984
Determined the possible long-term effects of a precollege Student Science Training Program (SSTP) conducted at Syracuse University from 1961 to 1974. Responses from completed questionnaires (N=114, representing a 33 percent response rate) were overwhelmingly enthusiastic and positive about SSTP. Includes actual student comments about SSTP and its…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Influences, Program Effectiveness, Science Careers

Towse, Peter J. – Science Education, 1983
Investigated whether the Lesotho Introductory Science Improvement Program promoted more positive attitudes toward science and how findings compared with those reported in the literature. Responses from a 57-item questionnaire, obtained from 647 students, indicated no significant differences between experimental (N=172 boys, 167 girls) and control…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness, Questionnaires
Dependents Schools (DOD), Washington, DC. Pacific Region. – 1988
This document is a checklist for use by science coordinators, school principals, science department chairpersons and teachers in identifying strengths and weaknesses of science programs in middle and high schools. It can also be used by science coordinators during school visits. This guide contains space for recording information concerning:…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Guides, Models, Program Effectiveness
Vlaardingerbroek, Barend – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2005
The Education Act of 1989 brought into existence the New Zealand National Qualifications Authority (NZQA), of which the first major task was to develop a national qualifications framework (NQF; New Zealand Government, 1989). The NQF was initially envisaged as a unified framework into which all secondary, vocational, and tertiary qualifications…
Descriptors: Science Programs, Program Effectiveness, Educational Change, Science Departments

Lombard, Anne S. – Science Education, 1982
Determined: (1) if teachers who participated in "Science Teaching and Development of Reasoning" workshops felt they utilized workshop ideas in changing teaching style/methods; (2) if nature and extent of changes made were consistent with workshop intent/philosophy; and (3) factors teachers perceived as facilitating or hindering their…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Performance Factors, Program Effectiveness
Missouri Univ., St. Louis. George Englemann Mathematics & Science Inst. – 1993
This publication is a comprehensive report on the George Engelmann Mathematics and Science Institute's Science Scholar program (SSP) and its activities in 1993. The SSP provides high achieving high school students an introductory, 4-week summer curriculum designed to demonstrate the connecting thread running through all scientific thought. The 52…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, College Faculty, College School Cooperation, Enrichment Activities
Brunkhorst, Bonnie J. – 1989
Recent efforts of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) have encouraged research between university researchers and classroom science teachers. In 1987 a longitudinal teacher research partners study was begun by the Middle and Junior High Division of NSTA and The…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Demonstration Programs, Educational Research, Excellence in Education