The authors of this paper attempt to extract from the literature on teacher questioning behavior specific limitations of past research in this area and to provide recommendations for future research. Seven types of limitations and associated recommendations are presented. (PEB)

Reviews the state of the art in current science education in terms of curriculum development, instructional procedures, and teacher training programs. Indicates that science education researchers should stop tinkering with piecemeal studies and start delineating the dimensions of dependent and independent variables in new curricula and pupils'…

Describes the development of six science teaching attitude scales, using the procedures similar to those of the Scientific Attitude Inventory. Included are field test results obtained from the elementary teachers of an inservice summer project. (CC)

Analyzes the nature and characteristics of the scientific endeavor to compare with that of children's play. Describes science as a form of religious sacred play which creates a world of make-believe that one may enter if one chooses to play. (CC)

Discusses the use of the taxonomy of educational objectives to analyze two lessons from Science - A Process Approach. Indicates that the material provides a considerable variety of cognitive behaviors on the part of students. (CC)

Reports the effects of exposing both kindergarten and elementary school children to high and low speed motion pictures on children's estimation of time. Concluded the children's judgment is dependent upon their chronological ages and daily experiences of visual perception. (CC)

Studied influences of simultaneously and successively exposing kindergarten and elementary children to low and high speed motion pictures on their judgment of distance, synchroneity, and isochronism. Concluded the presence of tau and kappa-movement effects in the younger group and anti-kappa effects among the older group. (CC)

Discusses the conduct of a new individualized elementary teacher education program at the University of Florida. Comparison of science content achievement between the new and traditional student groups shows the absence of significant differences. However, about 11 percent of college students scored lower than the top 10 percent of sixth graders.…

Studied scientists' and nonscientists' motivational conditions by administrating the School Motivation Analysis Test to secondary students who were classified as scientists and nonscientists according to an occupational scale. Concluded that differences can be explained in terms of dynamic traits and that science bias was instrumental in securing…

Discusses pedagogical tools, used in value education, to enhance changes in value systems. Indicates that the effects of teaching strategies and curriculum materials on students' value systems and attitudes toward social problems should be the major concern of life science instruction in the next decade. (CC)

Discusses present trends in preparation of college teachers, especially the non-research training activities in graduate programs. Indicates that the 1972 National Science Foundation announcement about the development of the Advanced Science Education Program can serve as an aid in meeting the challenge facing the scientific community. (CC)

Discusses ideas, pro and con, about performance-based teacher education and certification and the procedures used in New Jersey to develop teacher performance criteria. Indicates that the involvement of the teaching profession is desirable in the teacher preparation and certification process. (CC)

Discusses the development of a list entitled Desired Characteristics of the Science Program for the Middle School'' and based on findings from physiological, psychological, and cognitive research of the in-between-ager.'' Included are two reports on school visitations and an abridged section of Transescence and the Middle School.'' (CC)