Summarizes the inservice teacher training offered by Science Teacher Associations, Departments of Education and Colleges in each of the six Australian states, the Australian Capital Territory, and Papua-New Guinea. (AL)

Teachers training for elementary school teaching made significant gains on a test measuring their understanding of the nature of scientific hypothesis construction, testing, and use after completing a free-response linear program. (AL)

Summarizes a doctoral thesis that validated a Gagnian learning hierarchy and showed that graphical skills were more quickly learned the greater the guidance that was given, but that there was no difference in retention and transfer between guided and discovery learning of these skills. (AL)

Proposes using the idea of entrophy as a major component of science courses from a very early stage, via a study of changing systems. The concept of entropy can provide a basis for considering the environment, and even a basis for an ethical code. (AL)

At grades 10 and 12 in high school, and in the universities, a science cognitive style was identified. Students with a high science orientation are characterized by high conceptual differentiation; high categorizing flexibility with objects; high preference for analytic-descriptive concepts; high originality; low preference for…

Answers to questions in a grade 11 physics examination were analyzed to provide information on the cognitive development of Australian science students. Data from questions concerned with volume, mass and weight, levers and proportion, speed and velocity, acceleration and relative speed are compared with Piaget's findings: many of the students do…

Students' preferences changed from applied to theoretical aspects of physics, and from recall of facts to identification of fundamental principles during two years of study of the Physical Science Study Committee in Australian High Schools. (AL)

Summarizes the interrelationships of soil, topography, climate, organisms, and time in the Sydney (Australia) Basin, with particular reference to the effects of human intervention. (AL)

Outlines the development of the associations for socially concerned scientists in a number of countries; examines the ethical position of scientists who do not have control over the use of their discoveries; and indicates the necessity for conducting scientific research that is clearly related to social needs. (AL)

Describes apparatus for demonstrating resonance of a wire in a magnetic field, using a hot wire to increase visibility of the nodes. (AL)