The key to successful curriculum reform is a broad-based, systematic decision-making process directed by teachers. Common approaches to curriculum development are haphazard and tend to produce superficial change. An approach that gives teachers a personal and professional stake in its results, however, can generate fundamental and lasting reforms.…

Two approaches to teaching an accounting laboratory were compared: a lecture method and a self-instruction method. The achievement of 19 students in the lecture-method lab and 15 students in the self-instruction lab was assessed, based on scores on the first examination, the comprehensive final, and a laboratory score. A secondary analysis…

Francis Bacon began defining scientific methodology in the early 17th century, and secondary school science classes began to implement science labs in the mid-19th century. By the early 20th century, leading educators were suggesting that science labs be used to develop scientific thinking habits in young students, and at the beginning of the 21st…

Hospitals need technicians to maintain increasingly complex health care systems. Filling a need first addressed by the military, the education of Biomedical Equipment Technicians is now a growing civilian field. (Author)

Discusses ways in which teachers can improvise with common household objects and thus avoid the expense of purchasing new science materials. (JR)

Infant reaction to adult speech was studied through frame-by-frame analysis of sound films. Infants' actions were found to be synchronized with the organized speech behavior of the adults in his environment. (ST)

Des cribes the techniques for collecting and maintaining the eggs of frogs and toads (JR)

Discusses a student project which is intended to teach undergraduates concepts and techniques of nuclear physics, experimental methods used in particle detection, and provide experience in a functioning research environment. Included are detailed procedures for carrying out the project. (CC)

Presents some examples of using college, university, industrial, and governmental raw data to conduct physics classroom experiments and activities. Indicates that the approach has the advantages of making the student work publishable and of motivating the student to improve the quality of lab reports. (CC)