Reported is a study involving six group administered tasks concerning proportional, probablistic, and correlational reasoning with 505 students aged 11.5 to 20.0 years. Investigated were the effectiveness of the tasks for assessing formal reasoning; categories of classification for students' responses and implications for teaching are suggested by…

Describes exhibits from a math applications fair held as part of a National Science Foundation Pre-College Teacher Development Project. Topics of the exhibits include measurement, astronomy, optics, calculators, mathematics in nature, art, music, electronics, scale models, sports, bicycles, travel and vacations, kites, automatic design, stamp…

Describes Indiana University's elementary science teacher preparation program. The program consists of three elements or streams: (1) content process stream, (2) the planning stream, and (3) practicing field experience stream. A Basic Science Skills course is the first course in the sequence followed by content courses, methods, and early…

This research determines whether preservice science teachers' attitudes toward science and science teaching and course achievement differed from those of other majors and whether students enrolled in a special course relating the science studied to science teaching effected attitude change. Science majors had a more positive attitude and higher…

The issue of how much emphasis balancing chemical equations should have in an introductory chemistry course is discussed. The current heavy emphasis on finishing such equations is viewed as misplaced. (MP)

Proposals for modifying attitudes and anxieties about mathematics by inner city students and increasing the chances these pupils have to succeed in college mathematics are presented. Orientation sessions are proposed for students entering colleges with mathematics deficiencies and anxieties. (MP)

The study reported indicates that despite the fact that undergraduate majors in elementary education could demonstrate attainment of a minimum standard on science content knowledge at one time, many were not able to demonstrate competence at the minimum standard at graduation time. (MK)

The article describes the development of an instrument to measure attitudes toward the metric system. Particular attention was paid to the reliability coefficients obtained during several field tests of the instrument. (Author/MK)

Reports an attempt by Purdue University to establish a committee to investigate teaching abilities of the graduate teaching associates in the School of Science and to establish and implement recommendations. Their model is described with the intent of making it useful to other colleges and universities. (SA)

Describes an energy resources ranking simulation program for high school and college students. This program has the major objective of illustrating the complexity of issues concerning energy by involving students in a decision-making process that will call upon information from different disciplines. (HM)

Investigates the effect of an activity-oriented biology course on the science attitudes of preservice elementary teachers. Forty-nine students enrolled in this course during the winter and spring quarter of 1977 at St. Cloud State University, Minnesota participated in this study. (HM)

A mathematics laboratory is described that plays a central role in an undergraduate and graduate teacher education program. The laboratory allows students to relate mathematics content with teaching methodology and instructional planning systems. (MP)

Describes a project undertaken during fall semester, 1976, with secondary-science student teachers at the University of Texas at Austin. The project was designed to help student teachers identify science attitudes and successfully involving them in classroom activities. (HM)

Experimental data suggest that in a complex drawing, non-overlapping figures are more easily identified than overlapping figures and that triangles are easier to identify than quadrilaterals. (MP)

This experiment designed for beginning physics students, is related to postal regulations restricting the size of envelopes. A graph is constructed that allows for testing the mailability of envelopes. (MP)