Reports study of achievement differences among second grade children through use of visual perception training for introfactor transfer prior to study of the "Relativity of Position and Motion" Unit, Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS). Achievement is attributed to perceptual training in identical elements and to stimulating children's…

Describes planning and implementation phases of the development of individualized and small group learning laboratory facilities for primary and intermediate grades in a new elementary school. Includes descriptions of teacher and student summer activities during design, selection and evaluation of general science instructional media and materials.…

Reports study of ability of 300 first grade Honolulu, Hawaii students to describe properties of a physical object. Children were divided into experimentals who received instruction in the Material Objects Unit of the Science Curriculum Improvement Project (SCIS) and controls who received usual program. Experimentals were significantly higher in…

Reports study of achievement of ninth and tenth grade level students in Israel City, Kibbuts, and agricultural schools during 1966-68. Mean test scores on adopted BSCS Yellow Version topices attained by 549 BSCS students are signigicantly higher than those by 456 non-BSCS students. (JM)

Discusses development of courses in general oceanography at university levels. Designed for preservice elementary and secondary school teachers and general education students, the suggested courses are appropriate for inland as well as coastal universities and for instruction in the social and cultural impact of science. (JM)

Describes, and illustrates by reference to chemistry, a systems approach to the development of instructional segments. Uses a model with Behavioral, Temporal, and Substantive elements as axes. (AL)

Presents an inventory of processes of scientific inquiry and describes its use in curriculum development and instructional planning. (AL)

Discusses some of the definitions of successful instruction stated or implied by researchers in science education and examines reasons for the diversity of definitions. Describes how a high school chemistry teacher decides whether his or her instruction is successful and how these assessments influence instructional practices. (PR)

Reviews four hypotheses about learning: Comenius's transmission-reception theory, information processing theory, Gestalt theory, and Piagetian theory. Uses the categories preunderstanding, conceptual change, and learning processes to classify and assess investigations on learning processes. (PR)

Describes a theoretical frame for understanding cognitive development to outline the planning and performance of a unit on electrostatics. Analyzes a female student's learning process and the development of the complexity of her cognitive skills. (PR)

Reviews research on student learning about collisions in physics instruction. Focus is placed on the main differences between the spontaneous perspective in describing/interpreting collisions and the disciplinary perspective based upon the energy and linear momentum conservation laws. (PR)