Science experiment books which typically incorporate relatively large numbers of questions can be an especially important resource for children who are learning scientific processes. These processes include observing, communicating, hypothesizing, experimenting, measuring, classifying, generalizing, and predicting. An analysis of questions in…

This 12-chapter book examines different phenomena as viewed by those trained in physics. These views (or vistas) are promulgated to demonstrate that the infinite variety of things seen in the material world can be reduced to a handful of general laws and to share with the public the richness of the scientist's world view. The phenomena examined…

A seventh-grade botany project involving experiments with beans is described. (DT)

Directions are given for the construction of a manometer to measure animal metabolism. Steps in an experiment to measure frog metabolism are specified. (DT)

Describes the use of bio-medically significant materials to teach a self-pacing chemistry laboratory course to nursing majors. Indicates that the student can learn from the course to determine values of body fluid constituents, about their variations among healthy populations, and about difficulties inherent in making such measurements. (CC)

Discusses the offering of day-long sessions entitled "Science and Society" to high school students at Kansas State Teachers College with the purpose of increasing public understanding of science. Included is a brief description of laboratory experiments carried out in the sessions. (CC)

Discusses the educational values of participating in science fairs, and outlines the procedure used at Saint Ursula Academy, Toledo, to interest each biology student in an individual investigation. (JR)

The purpose of this study was to determine what effect price discrimination (differential pricing) would have on institutional gross-fee income. Enrollment and tuition data were gathered from all schools in one particular market area for the years 1969-72. In this situation it was determined that overall demand for higher education was highly…

Exploratory research with large numbers of variables and even larger numbers of relationships is likely to result in frequent Type II errors; that is falsely accepting an incorrect null hypotheses. There are three ways of reducing Type II errors: (1) choosing a lower significance level, which then increases the probability of Type I error; (2)…

Concluding the story of Countesthorpe College, the author looked at the results of Britain's most wholehearted experiment in state secondary education. (Editor/RK)

Describes a course which includes laboratory sessions and computer sessions, intended to acquaint the student with the laboratory based digital computer as a chemical tool. (MLH)