The many activities contained in this teaching guide emphasize hands-on involvement, prediction, data collection and interpretation, teamwork, and problem solving. The guide also contains background information about aeronautical research that can help students learn how airplanes fly. Following the background sections are a series of activities…

California's public schools have struggled since the passage of Proposition 13 in 1978, and today face enormous challenges to try to regain lost quality and standing as a national education leader. In light of the current economic crisis, competition for limited resources is fierce and the pressure is on to eliminate all but the basic "Three…

This instrument contains activities by which one can determine a child's intellectual development in: (1) observing, (2) classifying, (3) measuring, (4) using numbers, (5) using space/time relationships, (6) inferring, and (7) communicating and predicting. The seven sections of the instrument correspond to those processes defined in Science - A…

This document is an evaluation instrument developed as a part of Harvard Project Physics (HPP). It consists of a 36-item, multiple choice (five options) Physics Achievement Test (PAT) designed to measure general knowledge of physics as well as the material emphasized in HPP. (PEB)

This 60-item questionnaire was designed to gather general background information from students who had used the Harvard Project Physics curriculum. The instrument includes three 20-item subscales: (1) attitude toward physics, (2) career interest, and (3) student characteristics. Items are multiple choice (5 options), and the introductory material…

This inventory, developed for use with the Harvard Project Physics curriculum, consists of 135 two-choice (agree-disagree) items. Items cover perceptions of the role of scientists, the nature and functions of theories, underlying assumptions made by scientists, and other aspects of the scientific process. The test is suitable for high school…

This questionnaire, developed for use in evaluation of the Harvard Project Physics curriculum, consists of 90 Likert scale items selected to measure seven psychological variables: (1) dogmatism, (2) authoritarianism, (3) rigidity, (4) need-achievement, (5) order, (6) affiliation, and (7) change. Items were taken (with permission) from other scales…

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center along with their partners at other NASA centers, and in private industry, are designing and beginning to develop the next generation of spacecraft to transport cargo, equipment, and human explorers to space. These vehicles are part of the Constellation…

During the 2004-05 school year, the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education conducted a study entitled "Building Academic Skills in Context: Testing the Value of Enhanced Math Learning in Career and Technical Education," commonly referred to as the Math-in-CTE study. This was a random-assignment experiment that tested the…

This is one form of three performance checks booklets (A, B, and C) for Level I of the Intermediate Science Curriculum Study (ISCS). The three booklets are considered one of four major subdivisions of a set of individualized evaluation materials for Level I of the ISCS. This booklet (form A), developed to assess the students' achievement of the…

This is one form of three performance checks booklets (A, B, and C) for Level I of the Intermediate Science Curriculum Study (ISCS). The three booklets are considered one of four major subdivisions of a set of individualized evaluation materials for Level I of the ISCS. This booklet (form B), developed to assess the students' achievement of the…

This is one form of three performance checks booklets (A, B, and C) for Level I of the Intermediate Science Curriculum Study (ISCS). The three booklets are considered one of four major subdivisions of a set of individualized evaluation meterials for Level I of the ISCS. This booklet (form C), developed to assess the students' achievement of the…

This is one form of three performance checks booklets (A, B, and C) for Level II of the Intermediate Science Curriculum Study (ISCS). The three booklets are considered one of four major subdivisions of a set of individualized evaluation materials for Level II of the ISCS. This booklet (form A), developed to assess the students' achievement of the…

This is one form of three performance checks booklets (A, B, and C) for Level II of the Intermediate Science Curriculum Study (ISCS). The three booklets are considered one of four major subdivisions of a set of individualized evaluation materials for Level II of the ISCS. This booklet (form B), developed to assess the students' achievement of the…

This is one form of three performance checks booklets (A, B, and C) for Level II of the Intermediate Science Curriculum Study (ISCS). The three booklets are considered one of four major subdivisions of a set of individualized evaluation materials for Level II of the ISCS. This booklet (form C), developed to assess the students' achievement of the…