Six units of instruction, each including a variety of activities involving ratios, are presented. (DT)

The factors influencing a general conception of mathematics education and philosophical basis for mathematics curriculum development are discussed. (DT)

A description is given of a geometry unit for preservice elementary teachers in which professionalized subject matter is coupled with field-based teaching experiences. Details of an inservice course in measurement also are given. (DT)

Problems facing curriculum development efforts are discussed, and then a strategy for curriculum development for elementary and secondary school mathematics is outlined. (DT)

Presents trends in the numbers and proportions of pupils studying science in Scotland over the past ten years, trends in Scotland compared with England and Wales during the same period, and the similarities and differences between trends, pass rates and subject combinations for girls and boys. (Author/RK)

Distinguishes between two broad interpretations of the principle of equality of educational opportunity and shows how each version reflects a different educational philosophy. (Author/RK)

Seeks to pin-point an assumption that underlies a great deal of current educational theory. The assumption is that knowledge is an indivisible whole, that distinctions made between different school subjects are thus arbitrary, and that one learning strategy--that of "discovery"--exists, trainable upon any enquiries and universally applicable once…

It is well-known that Scottish universities are highly local institutions and that over two-fifth of Scottish university students live at home. Attempts to ascertain if this regionalism has relaxed over the past twenty years with student grant regulations, improvement in communications and the increasing affluence of today's society. (Author/RK)

A small scale survey of hearing-impaired graduates from Aberdeen schools was carried out in March 1973. It focused on the relation between types of schooling received, degree of hearing loss and levels of communication ability, employment satisfaction, training for work, promotion, and social attitudes. (Author/RK)

Examines a group of students, eighty percent having completed secondary education while ninety per cent attended college on a part-time basis, with the focus on their current sports involvement and the pattern of their leisure activities. (Author/RK)

In response to a request from the General Teaching Council for Scotland, the Aberdeen University Education Department offered to carry out a survey of teachers' opinions on the Primary Diploma Courses in Scottish Colleges of Education. Surveys principals and teachers in their second year of teaching. (Author/RK)

Provides some evidence on the educational record of Scotland's religiously segregated secondary schools. Specifically, this research reconsiders the popular impression of Catholic schools in the light of some new data about the past education of the adult population. (Author/RK)

By providing an educational alternative, Further Education or Adult Education was believed to be providing an alternative in social terms--that is, a form of education to which working-class youths had relatively easy access. Is the concept applicable to Scotland and does it provide an alternative route that is used by the working class? This…

By examining one community center in some detail this study attempts to consider leisure, and draws attention to "its mode of use" by comparing two groups of adolescents who attend this center regularly for quite different leisure purposes. The intent was to measure how far such leisure proposals represent preconceptions and value-judgments of…

Attitudes of 134 parents of children from 10 rural schools threatened with closure, and 56 parents of children from seven schools recently closed, were assessed by interview. Most parents opposed closure, and most gave educational reasons for their attitudes. (Author)