FACTORS RELATED TO ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN FIRST YEAR COLLEGE PHYSICS WERE IDENTIFIED. DATA WERE OBTAINED FROM THE RECORDS OF 923 STUDENTS WHO HAD COMPLETED THE FIRST SEMESTER OF A COLLEGE PHYSICS COURSE DURING A 5-YEAR PERIOD. MULTIPLE CORRELATIONS WERE USED TO RELATE STUDENT BACKGROUND VARIABLES TO ACHIEVEMENT IN COLLEGE PHYSICS. HIGH SCHOOL…

This guidebook, containing ideas and suggestions to aid the student in making a career choice, includes information about the space industry and about career opportunities in space science, engineering, and technology. Suggestions for parents, counselors, librarians, and teachers on how to utilize the book are provided. The book is arranged so…

The major objective of this project is to develop the intellectual independence of the student by enabling him to engage in self initiated scientific research. The program is structured so that the student selects an area for investigation, searches the literature, identifies a problem in that area, writes a rationale, designs the study, conducts…

This book represents the final report of the planning phase in the development of an instructional system to be implemented at Cubberley High School in the Palo Alto Unified School District. The purpose of this project is to develop a pilot science learning system in the earth/life sciences. The systems analysis approach was utilized in an attempt…

Evaluations of the nature and use o f new curriculum materials are scanty. The findings of such evaluations could be valuable to curriculum makers for (1) influencing an author's judgment regarding time needed to prepare materials, (2) providing clues to the nature of content to include or exclude from future publications, (3) giving direction to…

Guidelines for secondary teachers involved in teaching about the use of alcohol are presented. Sections include (1) aims and objectives, (2) content, (3) facts about alcoholism, (4) suggested student activities and teaching procedures, and (5) methods of student evaluation. Selected teacher, student, and supplementary references are listed.…

Frequency counts of content emphases in each text section and laboratory exercise of the first commercial edition of the three versions of the BSCS materials were made in terms of the nine common BSCS content objectives. Two high schools used each version with teachers experienced in and trained for that version. Students were pre- and posttested…