Describes many approaches to affective science teaching. Includes specific examples that correspond to Bloom's taxonomy of affective objectives. (MLH)

The treatment group of first-graders received audio-tutorial instruction in the particulate nature of matter; the control group received audio-tutorial instruction in a nonscience subject. The treatment group used a particulate model to explain the nature of smells much more effectively than the control group. (MLH)

A survey of 45 public high schools in Florida shows an extremely low enrollment of black students in science courses. Suggests that vague career aspirations, parental and counselor roles, and perhaps a certain degree of racism account for the enrollment figures. (MLH)

Examines the distinction between parametric and nonparametric statistics. Includes 45 references. (MLH)

Author questions the idea that there are issues or points of conflict between science education and environmental education, presents some proposed characteristics of desirable environmental education programs, and suggests ways in which science education can contribute to the goals of environmental education. (PEB)

Argues that conventional grades are inappropriate for certain university courses, and that a Pass-No Record system would be more wholesome and profitable. (JR)

Indicates that the explanation of what it means to obtain a significant F-ratio in discriminant function analysis, presented by K. E. Anderson in an earlier volume of Science Education, is incorrect. (JR)

Reports the results of a study designed to determine the attitudes of Oregon high school seniors toward a number of environmentally-oriented and science-related social issues. Attitudinal comparisons are made between students with respect to the amount of science they had taken in high school (grades 10-12), their school environment, and their…

Presents an overview of preschool science education as it has developed over the past decade, and examines some of the promising signs and problem areas in this field. Aims to provide teachers, researchers, and program planners with ideas that can be utilized in science program development at the preschool level. (JR)

Describes the Teacher Education Program in Science and Mathematics Education at The Ohio State University and outlines the comprehensive majors that are offered in this area. Also provides abstracts of six research studies which are concerned with aspects of the program. (JR)

This study compared two groups of high school biology students and teachers with respect to teaching method and resultant behavior, learning climate, and achievement. The use of an open-inductive method yielded significantly different results from the traditional deductive method of instruction. (JR)

Discusses the Nuffield Science Project and contrasts its philosophy with traditional science instruction in Britain. Describes aspects of the chemistry curriculum which reflect the aims of the Project, and outlines some radical changes that have taken place in examinations in science. (JR)

Examines the characteristics of the first generation of secondary science curricula reforms that emerged in the 1950's (such as PSSC) and the second generation of reforms that appeared in the following decade (such as Harvard Project Physics). The strengths and weaknesses of these two generations of science curricula are compared. (JR)

Describes "Studies in the Physical Sciences" (SPS), an audiotutorial physical science course designed for non-science elementary school classrooms. The course is completely laboratory-centered with no formally scheduled classes. Students can work at their own speed, choose what they will study from the sixteen units available and design their own…

Describes an audiotutorial program in Biological Science offered to non-science majors at Western Michigan University and reports the results of an evaluative investigation relating to this program. (JR)