The Space Shuttle and International Space Station provide a unique microgravity environment for research that is a critical part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) mission to improve the quality of life on Earth and enable the health and safety of space explorers for long duration missions beyond our solar system. This…

This book helps students become better and more informed consumers of published research studies. The book provides students with a systematic approach for first identifying whether an article or report should be considered "research," and then understanding the type of research it is and using criteria to judge the research. The book is meant to…

This book represents a "cookbook" for teachers of physics, a book of recipes for the preparation of demonstration experiments to illustrate the principles that make the subject of physics so fascinating. Illustrations and explanations of each demonstration are done in an easy-to-understand format. Each can be adapted to be used as a demonstration…

This teacher's edition of "A Manual of Experiments in Elementary Science" includes full directions and explanations regarding all manipulation, answers to all the questions in the "Student's Manual," diagrams, and additional hints and suggestions. The work covers elementary science experiment outlines adapted for use with…

Lake City Community College in Lake City, Florida converted to a four day week in order to conserve on fuel. Article discussed programs developed under the revised school schedule. (Author/RK)

Article discussed the spirit of cooperation between Johnston College and San Bernardino Valley College, California in volunteer efforts in a variety of community programs. (RK)

Results of psychological experiments usinganimals are presented. Use of the animal-human analogy to generalize these findings to humans is discussed. Ethological studies are interpreted in light of the total environment and situation involved. The completeness of the ethological model compared to the animal-experimental model is discussed. (LS)

A brief description of the University of Florida's Childhood Education Program, which aims to produce teachers who have learned to use themselves effectively as instruments to carry out their educational functions. The research on which the development of the program is based is also reviewed. (HMD)

Present study hypotehsized that deceptive activities characterize a pure competetive situation more than a mixed cooperative and competitive situation, and the latter more than a pure cooperative situation. (Author/RK)

Article discussed an instructors' educational reforms and his attempts to develop student individuality. (RK)

This study was conducted to determine if raters would use a single policy for determining the beauty of paintings and to demonstrate the JAN technique in an experiment where the predictors first had to be hypothesized and then a quantified measure ascribed to each. (Author/RK)

Discusses the need to standardize foreign language curricula to the extent that content for each of the four successive years of a language program is universally accepted. (DD)

Describes several well documented cases of Extra Sensory Perception (ESP), and discusses ways in which ESP experiments can be conducted in the science classroom to investigate telepathy, pyschokinesis, and clairvoyance. (JR)

Describes Follow Through, a program designed to develop and demonstrate alternative ways to reinforce and sustain Head Start benefits as children move through the elementary grades. (Author/RK)

The question to be answered in the study was: Are there significant differences in learning when students are presented organizers before the learning passages (pre-organizers), after the learning passages (post-organizers), or when they are presented only the learning passages (no-organizers)? (Author)