This volume presents a description of the Curriculum Materials Analysis System (CMAS), and discusses its use. The volume is in two parts, providing German and English versions of the same material. CMAS was designed for use in analyzing five major aspects of curriculum use: (1) content, (2) instructional methods, (3) adaptiveness, (4)…

Presents some minicourses and equipment which college professors consider new in science teaching, such as: (1) the environmental educational minicourse of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; and (2) multiple-choice testing without retyping. (HM)

Presents aims of, and recommendations developed by, a conference held in Malaysia, in 1977, for the purpose of discussing the problems of teaching physics in the Southeast Asian region. The recommendations dealt with ways of developing and achieving cultural self-reliance in physics education. (GA)

Reviews the physics courses regularly available at 16 universities and colleges of technology in Scotland. (SL)

Describes a guest speaker, upper level undergraduate chemistry course presented once-a-year at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. (SL)

Describes a new course in physics which employs the Mass-Radius (M-R) diagram, for non-science majors. The intent of this course is to permit the comprehension and appreciation of the why and wherefore of the gross structure of the universe. (GA)

Explains a physics course in which the students sign up for the lectures pertinent to their majors, mathematical abilities, and the university of their choice. (GA)

Describes the Integrated Science Program (ISP) which provides expanded educational opportunities for gifted science students being conducted at Northwestern University. (SL)

Responses of 165 elementary school principals in the state of Washington were analyzed to determine sources through which principals learn of curricular innovations in science and social studies. (GW)

Presents a secondary level chemistry curriculum based upon the fluorocarbon-ozone depletion model. (SL)

Reports on a chemistry course in winemaking and viticulture. (SL)

Presents the first of a series of papers discussing the major features and underlying philosophies of general college chemistry. This first paper reviews secondary level course content as well as college level general chemistry curricula. (SL)

Describes a one quarter hour graduate continuing education course for high school chemistry teachers. (SL)

Predicts the effects of today's secondary science education curriculum on the competencies of students who have experienced it. (JG)

Describes a course for non-science majors in gems and gemstones developed at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. (SL)