EXAMINED WERE THE CLASSROOM PRACTICES AND TEACHING RATIONALE OF HIGH SCHOOL BIOLOGY TEACHERS USING VARIOUS CURRICULUM MATERIALS. THREE GROUPS (64 TEACHERS) WERE ORGANIZED. GROUP EB CONSISTED OF 22 TEACHERS WITH A MEAN OF FIVE YEARS EXPERIENCE IN USING BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES CURRICULUM STUDY (BSCS) MATERIALS. GROUP BB CONSISTED OF 21 EXPERIENCED…

Included are seven booklets, part of a series published on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The publications are intended as overviews of some important activities, programs, and events of NASA. They are written for the layman and cover several science disciplines. Each booklet…

This newsletter lists references to research reports in science education. Of these, 49 were published in United States Office of Education Research Reports over the period 1956-1965, 160 in "Research in Education," and 104 in "Pacesetters in Innovation," for the fiscal year, 1966. Titles, pertinent descriptors, and cost of the…

This progress report provides information about the Nuffield Science Teaching Project activities related to the development of a physical science course. Included is information concerning the schools involved in the project, student enrollment figures, and certain student characteristics. Sections are devoted to discussions of teaching the…

As a supplement to Project Physics Unit 1, 21 articles are presented in this reader. Concepts of motion are discussed under headings: motion, motion in words, representation of movement, introducing vectors, Galileo's discussion of projectile motion, Newton's laws of dynamics, the dynamics of a golf club, report on Tait's lecture on force, and bad…

Behaviors described by the instrument were grouped into categories related to developing text material, pre-lab, laboratory, and post-lab discussion. Judges' ratings were used to select behaviors which could be designated as (1) consistent with ESCP, (2) neutral, or (3) inconsistent with ESCP. Classroom observations based on the instrument were…

This paper describes two quantitative methods of hierarchical analysis used to measure the similarity of sequences or hierarchies of steps on two test formats, the Randomized Multiple Choice (RMS) format, and the free-response problem test format. The investigator first used the Consistency Ratio method to quantitatively assess the transfer…

The tests included in this document are teacher-constructed. They are based on questions asked by students in connection with and following completion of laboratory experiences directed toward the understanding of specific "Ideas". The "Ideas" were taught, the laboratory experiences were completed, the tests were constructed, and the test keys…

Determined was the relationship between performance on a test devised to measure scientific creativity and participation in a science fair. The sample was drawn from three junior high schools and two senior high schools. The experimental group was composed of 311 students who were developing a project for a science fair. The comparison group…

This report, one of eight in different subject areas, gives the findings of a questionnaire survey designed to investigate what students remember of their course work in physics. Physics education is described in terms of topics studied, textbooks used, laboratory experiments done, time spent in physics, and the amount of physics, other sciences,…

Investigated were whether differences exist in the verbal behavior of effective and less effective secondary school biology teachers. From a population of 29 biology teachers a sample of five effective and five less effective biology teachers was selected. Effectiveness was determined by a teacher's combined score on the Teacher Rating Scale,…

Determined were the effects of educational motion pictures on the learning of biological concepts in a tenth grade biology course. Randomly assigned to sections were 173 students. One section was randomly drawn as the control group; the remaining sections were assigned as experimental groups. The experimental groups were shown films correlated on…

Determined were whether instruction in spelling of science words in eight-grade biological science had any significant effect upon scientific spelling, vocabulary, and reading comprehension; general spelling, vocabulary, and reading comprehension; science progress; and science achievement for classes of average and above average students. Also,…

This document is designed primarily to describe the U.S. Space Program, its history, its current state of development, and its goals for the future. Chapter headings include: Space and You; The Early History of Space Flight; The Solar System; Space Probes and Satellites; Scientific Satellites and Sounding Rockets; Application Satellites, Unmanned…

This publication offers information that may be of assistance in the development of programs or activities in aviation education. This report includes a listing of: the number of schools in each state offering high school aviation courses, state aerospace education advisory committees, high school teacher associations, full-time state personnel…