Investigates 5th and 6th grade students' learning when taught with the aid of dome and computer planetaria. Finds both planetaria equally effective with female pupils. Recommends the use of planetaria, which might enable females to catch up with males in areas that place heavy demands on spatial ability such as astronomy. (Contains 16 references.)…

Identifies the Nuffield Design and Technology Project which enlarges upon the national curriculum. Presents an investigation based on case studies of two teachers in separate schools, each using Nuffield publications with their classes. Explores how Nuffield materials were selected and adapted by the teachers. Suggests training to enhance…

Reports on research into children's understanding of mountainous landscapes and mountain genesis as revealed in their drawing and modeling representations and in subsequent interviews. Compares younger and older children aged 7-11 from United Kingdom inner city schools. Concludes that the interpretation of children's pictures is problematic and…

Investigates science teachers' views about their use of science instructional techniques in general, and the problem-solving teaching approach in particular. Focuses on difficulties faced by science teachers in implementing the problem solving teaching approach in the science classroom. Indicates teachers' concerns about covering the science…

Studies young children's designs in an early years design, make, and appraise (DMA) classroom. Examines several issues including the connection between designing and making, the purpose of drawing for young children, children's understanding of the design process, types of images used by young children, and children's attitudes toward designing…

This publication contains a selection of science education research papers, beginning with an overview of trends in science education cognitive developmental research and theory in the United Kingdom. Papers that follow focus on developments in studies of thinking and reasoning, including work on concept mapping and conceptual change. Closely…

This publication contains a review of trends in research over the past decade followed by 24 studies focusing on cognitive structure, instructional strategies, curricular issues, and attitudes. Among the specific areas investigated are: concept maps as reflectors of conceptual understanding; equations, translations, and number skills in learning…

This publication contains studies which focus on students' science concepts and the alternative frameworks they use to interpret natural phenomena. Among the specific areas investigated are: conceptions held by Year 11 chemistry students about stoichiometry; how some 9-year-old students interpret the word "solid" to mean hard, unbreakable,…

Reviews the successes and failures of the science curriculum reform activities in England and Wales during the last 20 years and examines the underlying causes. In this review the author draws extensively on findings from researchers into curriculum implementation, conducted in Britain and elsewhere. (Author/HM)

Presents a set of criteria and procedures for the evaluation of the school curriculum from the perspective of lifelong education. The author also describes the relations between some parts of Swedish curricula and the principles of lifelong learning. (Author/HM)

Presents the nine teaching units in the history of science, by Klopfer, which can be used for instruction at the ninth and tenth grades. Each of these units, which are designed as case studies, consists of a student booklet and a teacher's guide. (HM)

Discusses how the concept of information is fundamental to many branches of science, technology, and mathematics and how a systematic use of the information concept can help to bridge the gap between different subjects in school. (HM)

Presents the author's personal impression of his one-year participation (1976-77) in the science education program at the University of California at Berkeley. The German author's suggestions for the adaptation of such program in West Germany or Europe are also discussed. (HM)

Describes a study of the teaching behavior of student-teachers of science disciplines during the one-term teaching practice of the English "Post-Graduate Certificate in Education" course. Results suggest that in several behavioral dimensions students and teachers achieve a close match. (HM)

Presents a study which deals with cognitive preferences in agriculture of 943 Israeli middle-school (seventh and eighth grade) students and their teachers using a special cognitive preference inventory which was developed on the basis of the agricultural topics studies in Israeli schools. (HM)