Discusses the domain of measurement and evaluation: methods of data collection, focus of evaluation, criteria for evaluation, and purpose of evaluation. (MLH)

The major objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between the perceptual preferences of elementary school children and their performance on pictorial model-based tests of selected science concepts. Perceptual preferences for size and shape did not significantly influence performance. Preference for color did appear to be…

Reported is an investigation of the relationship among three selected instruments based on the responses of a sample of high school students. The instruments were the Nature of Science Scale (NOSS), the Science Support Scale (SSS), and the Test on the Social Aspects of Science (TSAS). All purport to measure "nature of science" objectives. (PEB)

Reviews several schemes for organizing science laboratory objectives and activities and for analyzing several techniques designed to measure these laboratory outcomes. The need for further study and analysis of psychomotor behaviors in science education is emphasized. (HM)

Reviews techniques available for measuring student skills with the processes of science at the elementary and secondary levels. (SL)

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

Synthesizes existing, isolated bits of information on U.S. secondary student enrollment in advanced science courses. Among the findings for grades 10, 11, and 12, the percentage of those students enrolled in Advanced Biology is 20, 26, and 54. Advanced Chemistry is 0, 33, and 67; and Advanced Physics is 0, 10, and 90. (PR)