Presents the view that laboratory work has been overemphasized. Need to critically examine effects on students of this practice. Some objections to current laboratory hours include irrelevance to student's future careers, recipe-type experiments, and conflicts with main academic objectives. (PS)

Describes a one-semester junior course with emphases placed on students' use of instructions designed by their peers in doing laboratory exercises, and indicates the feasibility of such a plan to a rather small range of group sizes. (CC)

In many science classes in secondary schools facilities no longer determine activities since programs come first. (DS)

Describes a course based on three levels of student performance (achievement, rationalization, creative). Students work on the achievement level at their own rates with lectures available, but not mandatory. Laboratory exercises are required. Grading is dependent on the amount of fulfillment of all three levels. Year-end assessment was determined…

Discusses the effectiveness and the history of a simplified teaching practice, microteaching, which is carried out under controlled conditions using sound and vision feedback to modify operant teacher behavior. (Author/RK)

Paper presents a course design which attempts to effect a meaningful integration of both concepts and experience and to deal with some of the problems and issues of doing laboratory training in the university setting. (Author)