This article reports the development, validation and use of an instrument designed to provide teachers with feedback information, based on students' perceptions, about their classroom environments. The instrument was developed to provide teachers with feedback that they could use to reflect on their teaching practices and, in turn, guide the…

Forty-six seventh grade science classes in Australia were tested before and after using Australian Science Education Project (ASEP) curriculum units. Significant improvements were found for 15 of 17 educational objectives related to inquiry skills and attitudes. (MLH)

Ten Australian seventh-grade classes using Australian Science Education Project (ASEP) materials and ten control classes were administered the Science Class Inventory to determine classroom climate. results showed that the ASEP students underwent more favorable changes in their enjoyment of science classes. (MLH)

Compares 1,547 aims of science education culled from the literature to the 33 aims of the Australian Science Education Project (ASEP). Places aims into 11 categories, then calculates proportion of total aims fafalling into each category. Rank correlation of literature aims and ASEP aims was 0.90. (MLH)

Illustrates that a view of the nature of science is dependent upon underlying assumptions concerning scientific proof. Compares the inductive view of science with the non-inductive viewpoint of Karl Popper. (CP)

Reports on the adaptation of a scale previously used to measure attitude toward the social implications of science among college students for use with secondary students. Upon use with seventh graders, scores obtained on the social implications scale correlated significantly with pupil socioeconomic status and with a number of learning environment…

Describes a curriculum evaluation model that includes a focus of evaluation and the method of evaluation. Identifies three distinct modes of evaluation: unstructured subjective observation, semi-structured consensus of opinion, and structured objective observation. Outlines the role played by curriculum evaluation in science education today. (GS)

Describes analysis of data obtained from junior science classes studying the Australian Science Education Project in Tasmania (Australia) in 1973. Test scores were obtained on the TOES and the TOUS. Results of the analysis are reported and interpreted. (RH)

Presents data concerning teachers' reactions after using Australian Science Education Project (ASEP) materials in Tasmania. (PEB)

In this two-part article, attention is directed to the need for teachers to be concerned with curriculum evaluation, using both objective and subjective data. Data from an Australian Science Education Project (ASEP) trial are used to demonstrate techniques that the teacher might employ in objectively evaluating his own courses. (JR)

Teachers rarely get to see good teaching in the classes of others, usually because they are too busy in their own classrooms. The teaching practices of mathematics and science teachers recognized as good teachers in Western Australia were studied in the hope that other teachers might learn from these findings. Exemplary teachers (n=22) and a…