Presents the procedures, results, and conclusions of a study designed to determine if there is any significant correlation between pupil control ideology of teachers and the extent to which classroom teaching practices recommended by BSCS are exhibited in the classroom. Subjects were 68 secondary school biology teachers, and 2040 students of these…

Using historical references, illustrates how the differences in patterns of thoughts and experimental methods of chemists and physicists have become less distinct in scientific research. Yet, points out that this merging of these sciences has not occurred in secondary schools. Relates the efforts to unify these two disciplines in the Nuffield…

Educators can find direct connections through the subject matter of physics, the physicist's approach to and attitudes toward problem solving, and his special understanding of nature. (Author/TS)

Responds to the challenge of the Snowmass Conference by calling for those engaged in "doing chemistry" to cast aside their prejudices and begin to speak in a fresh way to their colleagues and to society at large. Several specific suggestions are made on how to accomplish this. (Author/TS)

Student answers to free response written report asking for reasons why they found science easy or hard to learn are analyzed. (AL)