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Inventasch, Harvey – 1968
This study measured the effects of teacher-directed and self-directed problem solving techniques on junior high school students' expressed attitudes about science and scientists, their achievement of understandings of science facts and principles, and the rate at which they mastered understandings of the conceptualizations of science necessary to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 7, Instruction
Strope, Marvin Bernard – 1966
The purpose of this study was to compare a factual method of teaching introductory college astronomy with a conceptual method. Two sections of about 100 students each were taught from the same textbook, but had the same information presented by different techniques and with different emphasis. The control group was taught in a generally factual…
Descriptors: Astronomy, College Science, Concept Formation, Doctoral Dissertations
