The controversy between the Evolutionists and the Creationists is presented. The impact of the Creationists' activity on public school science teaching is discussed with particular emphasis on the selection of biology textbooks by school districts. (SA)

Reports on the recent controversy involving two organic chemistry textbooks. The charge of plagiarism and the court litigations are the object of interest in the chemical community since many prominant scientists are planned as witnesses. (SA)

Biochemical engineering as a scientific discipline is becoming accepted in England and is drawing many young men and women to its ranks. This article focuses on how engineering came to embrace the biological sciences. (Author/SA)

Discusses several questions concerning the nature of cognitive preferences and their measurement. These questions are of two types: logical, pertaining to matters of principles; and methodological, pertaining to matters of procedures. (HM)

Describes a study unit on the Titius-Bode Law of planetary distances designed to be used in undergraduate astronomy courses. The format of the guide is based on a Piagetian learning cycle of exploration, conceptualization, and application. (HM)

Presents two methods for measuring the index of refraction of glass or lucite. These two methods, used in the freshman laboratory, are based on the fact that a ray of light inside a block will be refracted parallel to the surface. (HM)

Investigates processes leading to a rationale for designing a teacher's manual. A sample of 45 teachers was used to give feedback information before, during and after teaching a newly developed laboratory block in genetics for the eleventh-twelfth grade level in Israel. (HM)

Secondary school students' attitudes toward science or the sciences were determined with specially constructed scales and from records relating to student enrollment in science courses. Emphasis is placed on factors which influence girls to enroll in physical science courses vs biological science courses. (SA)

The author describes the evaluation planning done for the Project for Science Integration in Ghana, with emphasis on the contextual limitations in a developing nation concerning the teachers, students, authors, materials, and finances. With careful planning, it was found that illuminating data for instructional improvement could be collected. (SJL)

Lists the obsolete, unnecessary, and misleading terms that occur within biology, chemistry, and physics literature. The terms selected are those most likely to be found in common use. Lists are also included of terms that teachers may need for introductory courses. (Author/SA)

Presents seven chemistry experiments, courses, and laboratory activities which have been done by some college chemistry teachers as a way of exchanging new ideas. (HM)

Discusses the cognitive outcomes of physics laboratory exercises and suggests three types of experiments which should be added to those normally used in physics courses. (HM)

A programed, two-credit hour, experimental microbiology course for nonscience majors is described. (SA)

Described is a doctorate level elective course in chemical engineering economics offered at the University of Tennessee. Students, working in pairs as a project team, must apply their knowledge of basic economics to the solution of a research question or problem. (BT)

Described is a series of four graduate level courses in polymer science, offered or currently in preparation, at Stanford University. Course descriptions and a list of required and recommended texts are included. Detailed course outlines for two of the courses are presented. (BT)