Compares current science education reform efforts with those of the 1960s to enhance student learning. Discusses how an "alternative models" view of scientific explanation can contribute to reforms of course goals, social aspects of science learning, instructional practices, and roles for technology. Contains 50 references. (ZWH)

Describes a study of a collaborative project in which science education faculty and upper elementary school teachers investigated the potential of a project based, technology rich, environmentally oriented approach to science education in an urban school. Discusses research methods and teacher responses to the computers and/or telecommunications…

Reviews the research on knowledge use in science and mathematics education and highlights approaches and strategies for dissemination. (ZWH)

Discusses reasons for the decline in American student participation in the sciences and offers suggestions to reverse this trend. (ZWH)

Describes computer software intended to help students understand the factors that determine their risk of HIV infection (ZWH)

Describes a study designed to identify the reasons that teacher scholarship recipients (n=58) chose science teaching as a career. Results indicate that these teachers chose their field of study because they want to teach the subject matter; they were committed to social change; and they liked to work with and be a positive force in the lives of…

Examines 30 years of the National Science Foundation's experience impacting science and engineering education. (ZWH)

Explores the role played by the conceptual structure of science in scientific literacy. Examines the role of scientific models in scientific literacy. (ZWH)

Considers the teaching of general chemistry in light of the actual practice of the science and the way that chemical knowledge is advanced. (ZWH)

Uses an input/output perspective to analyze the nature of the hindrances that are characteristic of the systemic inertia found in academic cultures. (ZWH)

Describes a study designed to examine and describe current participants in an incentive-driven teacher scholarship program in determining the impact of the scholarship on their decision to teach science. (ZWH)

Describes a case study that explores how a group of teacher leaders used network exchange to reflect upon their involvement with peer leadership and teacher support. (ZWH)

Many students are deterred from science because of the way science courses are packaged. To find out what makes science hard for intelligent students, the author employed nonscience faculty and graduate students as surrogate students in science. Their responses to the sequence of the units, demonstrations, homework assignments, examinations, and…

Describes the LabNet project that has three interrelated goals: (1) encouraging the use of student projects to enhance science learning, (2) building a professional community of practice among high school science teachers, and (3) exploiting the potential of today's new technologies. (PR)

The outcomes of two studies reported here indicate that the teacher inservice workshops, combined with activity-based science lessons, affected students' attitudes and perceptions about electricity. Australian and U.S. studies produced different patterns and are explored and explained in the paper. (Contains 24 references.) (Author/PR)