The system for determining parameters of a particle described in this document is a government-owned invention that is available for licensing. The background of the invention is outlined, and drawings of the system together with a detailed description of its function are provided. A collector contains a hole and annular apertures for transmitting…

Reported are the findings of a research project designed to identify subscales in the "Science Process Inventory" (SPI) developed by Welch in the 1960's to assess student knowledge about the nature and processes of science. Form D of the instrument was used with a random subsample of 435 students who were included in the Harvard Project…

The demand for radiation protection personnel has increased during the past several years and can be expected to continue to increase for several years to come. This document gives the results of the latest survey of institutions offering degree programs in this field. Such a small segment of the total college enrollment is represented in health…

Discussed in this document are the changes within the physics profession, their causes and effect. Detailed statistical data are supplied concerning physics enrollments, the institutions where physics is taught, the faculty in physics departments, and the nonacademic employment of physicists. Other topics include employment, education, minority…

Investigated was the assumption that college students are fully capable, by the time they enter college, of operating at the level of formal thought. The subjects selected for this study were students in chemistry and physics courses at a state university and an inner-city community college. Each student was tested with a Piegetian task to…

As the second report on physics disciplines, a balanced picture of recent progress in relation to other scientific fields and human civilization is presented in this first volume prepared by the Physics Survey Committee. Fourteen chapters are included with the first one dealing with the origin, objectives, and organization of the Committee. The…

A follow-up study was made, in 1972, for 3,150 students who enrolled in a physics course during the 1967-68 experimental year of Project Physics (PP). An eight-page questionnaire was mailed to the students. The questionnaire included one section on students' biographical information, two sections of items identical to those of 1967-68 devices, and…

These proceedings of a 1965 conference on the teaching of science in the sixth form of English schools contain summaries of each speaker's introduction to his paper, the full text of his circulated paper, and a summary of the discussion that followed. The papers were titled the sixth form; "Structure and Properties of Matter" as a sixth…

The preliminary draft for a course in Strength of Materials and Materials Testing Laboratory contains a day by day teachers guide and an outline for laboratory activities. The guide includes sequence of topics, suggested reading assignments, demonstrations, and worksheets. The outline provides material for the development of a laboratory manual…

This study is an attempt to discover the relation of classification and seriation, two areas of intellectual development investigated by Piaget. A number of test items, modified from Piaget's description, were administered individually to 29 boys and 21 girls in third-grade classes. A set of 11 lessons involving tape recordings, technique films,…

This report discusses the development and implementation of computer-related teaching materials for undergraduate physics courses. A list of the computer dialogs developed, with a short description of each, is included. The types of dialog are: (1) development of an interactive proof, (2) assistance in problem solving, (3) diagnosing and filling…

This paper presents some of the preliminary results of Project COEXIST at Dartmouth College, an NSF sponsored project to investigate ways to use computers in introductory physics and mathematics teaching. Students use the computer in a number of ways on homework, on individual projects, and in the laboratory. Students write their own programs,…

This list of currently available films and filmstrips pertinent to instrumentation has been compiled from information solicited from many government and private sources. The 1969 compilation has been organized into the following eight categories: (1) principles of measurement and basic measurements; (2) analysis instrumentation; (3) automation and…

This paper summarizes what physicists can bring to school science and what work in school science curriculum development has given, through the work of college and university physicists, to physics education. The physicist brings the similarity of the style of understanding as a child, which is inquisitive experimentation. He also has a…

The main purpose of this report is to help novice reviewers accelerate their apprenticeship at the Nuclear Safety Information Center, a computerized information service sponsored by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Guidelines for reviewers are presented in Part 1; Part 2 contains guidelines for the novice editor. The goal of the reviewers and…