It is suggested that the dilemma at every level of science education has its roots in the discrepancy among the goals of science education appropriate for different groups of learners. Considered are the major goals of science education as applied to two groups of pupils - the prospective scientists and all students in general. For the prospective…

This report contains abstracts of most of the research papers in science education presented at the 43rd annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching in Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 5-8, 1970. Also included are the topics and names of participants of several symposia at the conference. The abstracts are organized…

The major purposes of this study were to evaluate the effect of the use of slide/tape units as an instructional aid for the teaching of laboratory technique in the college general chemistry laboratory and to determine if special instruction in creativity would effect creativity in chemistry. The units were evaluated under three conditions of…

This dissertation is an investigation of the attitudes and opinions relative to college introductory biology courses as a part of general education in Oklahoma's institutions of higher education. Opinions were gathered from Oklahoma's college biology faculty who had teaching responsibilities in the introductory biology courses. A simultaneous…

Reported is a study to determine the effect of planetarium instruction in terms of immediate attainment, attitude, and retention in the teaching of selected celestial motion and non-celestial motion concepts, when contrasted to or combined with the inquiry activities utilized by the nationally developed science curricula. Observations were made on…

Investigated were differences between levels of achievement of freshmen general chemistry students as related to high school chemistry curricula. Objectives of the study were: (1) to measure the degree of success achieved by college general chemistry students related to their high school chemistry curricula, (2) to evaluate CHEM Study as related…

The experiment was designed to study the effects of an instructional strategy on prospective elementary school teachers receiving a course in the modern concepts of physics. The study involved two classes, both of which were taught with the same teaching method. The concepts presented were different. Those considered as traditional content…

The primary purpose of this study was to determine if self-instructional data analysis sessions could be used effectively as traditional college laboratories to reinforce students' understanding of certain principles of mechanics. The secondary purpose was to determine whether any of the 140 college physics students involved had a dependence on…

Reported is a study of the relationship of independent study, object visualization, and anxiety to hypothesis formation by college freshmen in the biological sciences. The participants of the study were 108 undergraduate females who had no previous science instruction and who were enrolled in introductory biology classes. The subjects, randomly…

Five aspects of student affective learning were examined in this study. These included: (1) awareness of lesson structure, (2) ease in understanding, (3) satisfaction in responding, (4) valuation of the lesson as helpful, and (5) valuation in terms of relevancy and value. Four lessons were written in both a high-kinetic-structured format and a…

The purpose of the study was to determine if three treatment programs of varying degrees of abstractness would produce similar effects on first year college students. One hundred four students participated in the study. All had completed, at minimum, a one-year high school chemistry course. Treatment was restricted to the laboratory portion of a…

In this comparative study of instructional methods involving university students, pre- and posttest data were collected from achievement and attitude instruments as well as from opinion questionnaires. The major findings included: (1) students taught via audio-tutorial instruction demonstrated significantly greater achievement gain; (2) the number…

Three class sections of a general studies biology course were involved in a study to determine the effects of behavioral objectives on achievement, using an audio-tutorial approach. Students were randomly assigned to treatment groups. Experimental Group I students were given a list of behavioral objectives prior to instruction. Group II received…

Reported is a study comparing a directive problem-solving (teacher centered) approach and a non-directive problem-solving (student centered) approach in a community college remedial science course for freshmen. The evaluation of the two methods was based on statistical analysis of changes in achievement and in student attitude toward the course.…

A list of measurable behavioral objectives (MBO) is presented in this booklet for use throughout the Articulated Multimedia Physics Course. The objectives are divided into terminal and enabling objectives. Computer analyses of student's achievement are given in the form of the MBO number. The objectives are grouped into 14 lessons: measurement and…