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ERIC Number: EJ185568
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1978
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-4308
Scientific Inquiry Training for High School Students: Experimental Evaluation of a Model Program
Peterson, Kenneth D.
Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 15, 2, 153-9, Mar 78
Fifty-nine secondary school physics students were assigned to treatment groups: (1) Project Physics units, (2) Project Physics and verbal learning unit, and (3) a training program in scientific inquiry. Posttest results revealed that, on most aspects of a science inquiry test, treatments 2 and 3 had significantly greater effect on achievement than did treatment 1. (CP)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Inquiry, Instruction, Physics, Program Evaluation, Science Course Improvement Projects, Science Education, Secondary Education, Secondary School Students
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Identifiers: Harvard Project Physics