Comments on the study of Mali and Howe (1979) which used the work of Nussbaum and Novak to examine the notions that Nepali children hold about the earth. (HM)

Describes the contributions of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to the development of college faculty in 1958, 1968, and 1978. The described activities are NSF institutes, faculty research participation, and fellowship programs. (HM)

This essay is the first of a series of papers about historically important innovators in elementary school science. It presents a brief survey of Wilbur Samuel Jackman's life and describes his ideas about elementary school science and how he put them into practice. (HM)

Presents the Nuffield Junior Science Project (NJSP), an elementary science program developed in the United Kingdom. Some learning activities that are contained in Nuffield Junior Science Teacher's Guide I are described. (HM)

Investigates the difference between the perceived knowledge structure of unified science students and subject-centered students, and their respective teachers' perceived knowledge structures and curriculum content structures at a Massachusetts high school during the 1973-1974 academic year. (HM)

Presents specific guidelines which content-oriented science teachers can follow in order to develop subject-matter comprehension, decision-making skills, and values/moral clarification and reasoning processes in their students. (Author/HM)

Evaluates the value and effectiveness of college science laboratory instruction. An observational system called the Science Laboratory Interaction Categories (SLIC) was used to assess the performance of students and instructors in introductory and advanced laboratories of a large midwestern university. (HM)

Investigates the effect of the use of a training method that applies the kinetic structure of verbal communication on the increase of the commonality of secondary science teachers' lectures. (HM)

Describes the written Piagetian Task Instrument (PTI), a diagnostic instrument developed for detecting the student's ability to perform the elements of Piagetian formal thought. The use of the PTI by 86 students enrolled in introductory college genetics at Ball State University of Indiana was investigated. (HM)

Describes the use of interviews with children ranging in age from 6 to 13 to identify patterns of children's beliefs in the area of heat and temperature. Also discusses how this knowledge might be used in an instructional setting. (HM)

Compares the performances on a battery of six Piagetian tasks of 80 Nigerian high school students classified as high and low achievers in biology. The relationship between performance of very bright biology students (high achievers) and intellectual precocity is also investigated. (HM)

In this article a general model of mastery learning is developed and discussed using data gathered from operating applications of the mastery model in college classrooms. Suggestions for the implementation of the mastery model in the high school are also presented. (HM)

Examines the purpose and functions of policies of science education. New aims and goals for an ecological society, derived by using the fundamental units of ecological study: organisms, environment, populations, community, and the encompassing concept of ecosystem, are discussed. (HM)

Presents pattern of trends in science curriculum reform for elementary and secondary schools that blossomed in the middle of the 1960s. A brief review is also included to show how the society has affected the different stages of the curriculum movement. (HM)

Investigates how an inservice course using the Investigative Science in Elementary Education-Instructional Television (ISEE-ITV) model of instruction supported by professional reinforcement affected the attitude of elementary teachers toward a leadership role within their respective school buildings. (HM)